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"We're not through them yet then?" "Through? Bless me no, we're only just starting, but there's no use hurrying. Tide's right, and we have plenty of time." "I feel as if I'd been lost and found again," said Miss Penny. "If Mr. Pixley comes along we'll induce him in here and leave him to find his way out." "It would take more than you to get Mr. Pixley in here, Hennie," said Margaret quietly.
Roy shouted. "Carried by a large majority! Come on, let's go in for a swim while the tide's up. That will help to give us an appetite." "What do you mean, 'help to give us one?" asked Artie Van Arlen. "Haven't I got four already?" "Well, when you come out of the water you'll have five," said Roy.
"The tide's under us. It's a jolly lucky thing it is. If it was the other way we wouldn't get home to-night. I wonder now whether the Kinsellas think you've any connection with the police. You don't look it in the least, but you never can tell what people will think. If they do mistake you for anything of the sort it might account for their not wanting you to land on Inishbawn." "Why?"
"That's your sort; hit him hard, he's got no friends," said Dove, turning a mass of red-hot metal from side to side, while Ruby pounded it with a mighty hammer, as if it were a piece of putty. "Fire and steel for ever," observed Ruby, as he made the sparks fly right and left. "Hallo! the tide's rising."
We're driftin' somewheres, but we're spinnin' 'round so I can't tell which way. Judas!" he exclaimed, more soberly, "I remember, now; it ain't but a little past seven o'clock, and the tide's goin' out." "Of course it is," resignedly, "and we'll drift into the breakers in the bay, and that 'll be the end." "No, no, I guess not. We ain't dead yit.
"Well, yes, sir; p'raps we might. It's a good deal lighter, you see, since I come, but she's far from low water yet, and it'll come much easier when tide's right down. But can't I have a bit of a look round, Master Aleck?"
They crawl up into shallow water at particular seasons of the year, probably for the purpose of gendering, as we often find them in pairs. It is when the sun has the most power on the water, rendering it tepid, that they approach the shore; and they often go up into places so shallow that, on the tide's receding, they are left dry, exposed to the beat of the sun.
These here, as knows the coast, says no boat could be launched now, but the tide's a-falling fast, and bimeby they'll go and fetch the skipper off if she don't go to pieces fust," he added to himself. "And take me too!" cried the boy wildly. "Well, we'll see, my lad, but one on us o' course. But, Master Bob, do you know what you ought to do?" "Save my father," panted the boy.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the squire, "this is dreadful: but is it true, sirra?" "Why, sir, if you go to his house you'll find it so." "Oh, papa," said Helen, "surely they wouldn't hang him?" "Hang him, Helen; why, Helen, the tide's turned; they want to make him an example for the outrages that he and others have committed against the unfortunate Papists.
You're only fiddling about it like an old woman." "Hor, hor!" laughed the man. "Like an old woman!" "Will you fetch me a long fishing-line?" "No good now, sir; tide's going out." "Never you mind about that. I want a line." Bostock carefully placed the auger against one end of a plank, grunted twice over, and then began to turn the handle. "Precious hard bit o' wood, sir."
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