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I venture to say the monarch was a great deal more humble than the follower, who pretended that his master was superior to such trifling facts as the revolution of the planet. It was the same thing, you remember, with King Canute and the tide on the sea-shore. The king accepted the scientific fact of the tide's rising.
"Why then, Lord love you, Martin hasten!" says he, "For tide's falling and it's all we shall do to clear the reef." Reaching Deliverance Sands I saw the boat already launched and manned and, wading into the water, laid my lady in the stern sheets. "Come!" cried Adam, reaching me his hand, "In with ye man " "Not I, Adam." "Why, what now, comrade?" says he, staring.
"It's a flood tide to-day and with the big ground swell she hasn't a chance." As they neared the wreck they saw the crew of the stranded vessel huddled together on the sloping deck. "Don't go in any closer, Tom," cautioned the girl. "The tide's turning. They can wade ashore and watch her break up."
So, also, when the ebb has run out and the flood begins, the channel is fed by two currents flowing to the centre and meeting in the middle. Here the Elbe and the Weser are our two feeders. Now this current here is going eastwards; we know by the time of day that the tide's rising, therefore the watershed is between us and the yacht. 'Why is it so important to know that?
But the woman said, "The tide's late to-night," exactly as she might have remarked with dry civility that it was fine weather. "Yes," said Caius, "I suppose it will be." She was looking into the cellar, not towards the edge of the bank. "With a decent strong tide," she remarked, "you can hear the waves in this cave." Whereupon she walked slowly past him back toward her house.
"She won't stay together long, I guess," he said sorrowfully. "Those waves will batter her to pieces." "She'll stand a lot of battering," answered Steve hopefully. "It's hitting her on the beam and she hasn't swung much since I left her. The tide's still coming in and " He stopped. Then: "I ought to have dropped the stern anchor over," he went on. "What an idiot!
There's a kittle bit, ye see, about Sandag; whiles the sook rins strong for the Merry Men; an' whiles again, when the tide's makin' hard an' ye can hear the Roost blawin' at the far-end of Aros, there comes a back-spang of current straucht into Sandag Bay. Weel, there's the thing that got the grip on the Christ-Anna.
Let my head alone, will yer?" came in a low, deep growl. "That's Joe, sir, safe enough. Harkee there! Hear 'em?" Sundry creaking sounds came out of the darkness some distance away now, and Tom Fillot continued in a whisper, "They're hysting all the sail they can, sir. Look! you can see the water briming as she sails. They're going same way as we. Tide's taking us."
The Ladrone boat immediately anchored, and dispatched the compradore's boat for the ransom, saying, that if she approached nearer they would return to the fleet; and they were just weighing when she shortened sail, and anchored about two miles from us. The boat did not reach her till late in the afternoon, owing to the tide's being strong against her.
"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Pegotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in not properly born till flood." The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.
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