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Updated: September 20, 2025
There was some excitement when Tony the Greek hooked a shark off the jib-boom, so big that half a dozen tailed on to the line and failed to land it. But I caught no glimpse of Mr. Pike nor of the renegade Sidney Waltham. In short, it was a lazy, quiet day of sunshine and gentle breeze. There was no inkling to what had happened to the mate. Was he a prisoner? Was he already overside?
Sir Harry had long been tailed off; both the brothers Spangles had dropped astern; the horse of one had dropped too; Sawbones, the doctor's, had got a stiff neck; Willing, the road surveyor, and Mr. Lavender, the grocer, pulled up together.
Any brothers 'n' sisters?" "Two one brother 'n' one sister." Bill looked relieved for some reason. "I got nine," he said. "Yours younger'n you?" "Yes." "Lot of bother with the landlord?" "Yes, a good lot." "Had any bailiffs in yet?" "Yes, two." They compared notes a while longer, and tailed off into a silence which lasted three minutes and grew awkward towards the end.
If we hadn't tailed onto the whale as we did they'd had their hooks in it by this time." A few words in Spanish to Pedro had stirred up the mate and crew of the Sea Spell. They seemed wonderfully busy getting a lot of gear and litter upon deck. The uninitiated might have thought that we were getting ready to cut up the whale and boil down the blubber in the most approved style.
He stopped and stood like a bronze statue by Michael Angelo in the attitude of suddenly arrested motion. Upwards of two hundred bronze arrested statues instantly tailed away from him. Presently a smile, such as Michael Angelo probably never thought of reproducing, rippled on the usually grave visage of the chief. "M'ogany Drake!" he whispered, softly, in Paul Bevan's ear.
The Ring Tailed Panther, true to his principle of never taunting a prisoner, did not reply, and they mounted. The Panther rode ahead and Obed and Ned, with Urrea between them, followed. Urrea was silent, his face melancholy and reproachful. The belt of timber extended only a few hundred yards farther, when they came upon the open prairie extending to the horizon.
'Frenchmen, said Louis, reproachfully, 'why do you persecute this man? What madness excites you? 'I do it, cried the Count of Artois, 'because I dislike the tailed English, and because I think the army of Crusaders would be well purged of them.
Trailing her chain behind her, the little green monkey, the tailed female who knew love and hysteria and was remote cousin to human women, flashed up to the narrow cage-bars and squeezed through. Simultaneously the tangle underwent a violent upheaval.
To this end, we went down, all of us, to the beach where lay the wreckage, and, getting about the portion which I intended to use, carried it to the foot of the hill; then we sent a man to the top to let down the rope by which we had moored the boat to the sea anchor, and when we had bent this on securely to the piece of timber, we returned to the hill-top, and tailed on to the rope, and so, presently, after much weariful pulling, had it up.
I heard him distinctly sing out, after ordering them to haul upon the spring on his cable, "Now, men, I need not tell you to fight bravely, for if you are taken every devil of you will be hanged, so hoist away the signal," and a small black ball flew up through the rigging, until it reached the main topgallant masthead of the schooner, where it hung a moment, and in the next blew out in a large black swallow tailed flag, like a commodore's broad pennant.
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