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Tennant, while Gaga put down the bags and wiped his hands with his handkerchief. "Looks right across the river. I'm afraid the tide's out now; but when it's up you see all sorts of things floating up and down." "What sort of things?" demanded Sally, going to the glass sides of the building and peering down at the mud. "Oh, all sorts...." Mrs. Tennant was a little confused, but conversational.
Everything was found in an entire state; but, as the tide was nearly gone, only half an hour's work had been got when the site of the building was overflowed. In the evening the boats again landed at nine, and, after a good tide's work of three hours with torchlight, the work was left off at midnight.
This was awful, and every moment I expected the net and the sail which our friend had thrown down unceremoniously upon us would roll off. "Oh, stop that," said the Martian, who was no doubt quite as well aware of the danger as we were. "The tide's full, the shoals are in the bay stop your nonsense, and help me launch like good fellows." "Well, take two of us, then.
"In another hour we may be able to reach the shore, if only the mist would clear." "My foot still hurts," said Muriel. "I don't believe I shall be able to limp a step." "Perhaps a boat will come to find us, now the tide's not so high. I'm sure Miss Lincoln would send somebody to look." "You don't think she would go home without us, then?" "Oh, no! I'm quite certain she wouldn't.
And Jimmy, looking, saw upon the western horizon a long, gray line. "Why, there's the land!" he exclaimed. "Isn't it great to see it again!" said Bobby. "Let's paddle hard, and see if we can't make it. The tide's been drifting us in, and the paddling we've done in the night has been helping." "It didn't seem to, but it must have," agreed Jimmy, working as hard as he could with his short paddle.
And now, you look here," he added, suddenly changing his tone, "we've had about enough of this foolery. The tide's made good enough by now. You just take my orders, Cap'n Hawkins, and we'll sail slap in and be done with it."
Every now and then, too, came a curious creaking sound, as wood was strained against wood. "Tide's setting in very hard, sir," said Mr Brooke. "Yes," said the captain. "Come on board; ha!" There was another vivid flash, and we distinctly saw the great matting-sails of two junks for a moment, and again all was black.
Because of these powerful currents, fishing is somewhat difficult, it being necessary to make sets at the slack of the tides, getting the gear over and traveling with the finish of the current, to take it up and come back with the tide's return. Clarks Ground. Here are very heavy rips on the ebb tide.
And now beyond the door was silence, and then I heard Adam hailing me: "Oho, shipmate unbar! Tide's on the turn and we must aboard. And trust me, Martin, for your comrade as will see justice done ye. So come, Martin, you and my lady and let's aboard!" "Aye, aye, Adam!" quoth I, "Better die o' solitude than live with a breaking heart. So cheerily it is, Adam!"
"Tide's comin' in you'd best be careful," screamed Jinny as he bounded barefoot down the slope; but he was already out of earshot. There sat Jinny on the sunny, wind-swept hill-top; her silk skirt carefully tucked up, and the embroidered frill of her starched white petticoat just resting on her sturdy, well-shod feet.
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