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"I must go forward and get steerage way on this craft somehow, or we shall capsize. Can you hold it, do you think?" "Yes; I I think so." "You must." I left her, went to the cuddy and dragged out the small canvas tarpaulin which I used to cover the engine at night.
"Help this young man! How can you stand and see it?" A cry of "The tarpaulin!" arose. An earnest-looking man in a very light grey cycling-suit had suddenly appeared at the side of the lame motor-car and addressed the owner. "Have you a tarpaulin?" he said. "Yes," said the gentlemanly man. "Yes. We've got a tarpaulin." "That's it," said the earnest-looking man, suddenly shouting.
It was a strange sight the moon seemingly singling out every sleeper for me. Another night we went together over to the Queen's Shades, near Billingsgate. On the top of a number of barrels, covered with tarpaulin, seventy-three fellows were sleeping. I had the whole lot out for a halfpenny apiece. "'By God's help, I cried inwardly, 'I'll help these fellows.
"Oh, did you bring any letters for me?" she cried eagerly. He held out the two he had kept in his hand. "Oh, goodness, Nat only from mama and Lutie Bissell. You excited me so!" He spread a tarpaulin amid the clutter amidships and they sat down.
The others stood away with approving noises. The tarpaulin was held over the burning bicycle like a canopy, and then smothered down upon it. "We ought to have done this before," panted Grubb. There was a moment of triumph. The flames vanished. Every one who could contrive to do so touched the edge of the tarpaulin. Bert held down a corner with two hands and a foot.
These I stowed away in the gig under the tarpaulin that covered it. Then I cut the ropes nearly through so that with much added weight it would drop into the water some twelve feet below. "I waited impatiently for nightfall, and when supper time came told the Captain that as I still felt rather seasick I thought I had better retire to my stateroom.
As soon as we were relieved, we skurried back to our blankets, drew the tarpaulin over our heads, and slept until dawn, when on being awakened by the foreman, we found a wet, slushy snow some two inches in depth on the ground.
For two dollars he bought from an Indian three leathery sea-biscuits, and out of these, and a huge quantity of raw bacon, made several meals. Unwashed, unwarmed, his clothing wet with sweat, he slept another night in the canvas. In the early morning he spread a tarpaulin on the ice, loaded it with three-quarters of a ton, and started to pull.
Perceiving that our hero was putting his own clothes, which he had taken off; into a bundle, the Jew asked him whether he would sell them, and Joey immediately agreed; but the price offered by the Jew was so small, that they were returned to the bundle, and once more was Joey leaving the shop, when the Jew at last offered to return to him the money he had paid for the sailor's dress, and take his own clothes in exchange, provided that Joey would also exchange his hat for one of tarpaulin, which would be more fitting to his present costume.
The two crews with their ceaseless tom-tom on the shore of the creek, were upward of half a mile away. Natalie was made comfortable in her tent; and Garth and Charley, collecting a pile of firewood, covered it with a tarpaulin, against the coming rain.
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