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"Tide's going down very fast, sir, arn't it?" "Yes; why?" "'Cause we don't seem to get no forrarder. Hi! steady there! D'yer want to bury yer orficer?" "Never mind me, man. Stow away; she must soon be lightened enough to make her float." "Then we'll lighten her, sir; but don't you go and give orders for any of the stuff to be chucked overboard. It's too vallerble for that."
"If we can get out on the other side, we oughtn't to be very far from the lagoon," Jake suggested. Presently there was a faint rippling against the bows and the launch began to swing round. "The tide's coming through from the other end," said Dick. "We may find a channel if we can push her across the mud."
I forgot," she cried; "what about the wreck?" "The tide's turnin'," Ai replied from the depths of a bowl of coffee. "Like as not the ship will lift by mornin'! More frightened than hurt anyway, I guess. They've signalled us t' stand by till daybreak, but I'm thinkin' they'll hist before then!" When Ai had gone Thornly put the cup down, and placed Billy back on the pillows.
Carthew and Wicks turned to each other. "Perhaps you don't know how tired we are," said Carthew. "The tide's flowing!" cried the captain. "You wouldn't have me miss a rising tide?" "O, gammon! there's tides to-morrow!" retorted Tommy. "And I'll tell you what," added Carthew, "the breeze is failing fast, and the sun will soon be down.
The loyal hangers-on, who believed in divine right, were too proud of the company they found themselves in to make any such humiliating admission. But there are people, and plenty of them, to-day, who will dispute facts just as clear to those who have taken the pains to learn what is known about them, as that of the tide's rising.
His rays had not yet sufficiently dispelled the clouds which hid the land from view, and the Bell Rock being still overflowed, the whole was one expanse of water. This scene in itself was highly gratifying; and, when the morning bell was tolled, we were gratified with the happy forebodings of good weather and the expectation of having both a morning and an evening tide's work on the rock.
"Well, take yer chice, if you ain't suited, Caleb Benson." "Wal, wal; don't git out to sea afore the tide's up, old woman." "Ole woman! Ole woman yerself, Caleb Benson!" retorted Clorinda. "Jes so!" answered the fisherman, seizing upon the largest steel pen to be found, and grinding it on the bottom of a bronze inkstand.
If we had not been barefooted and bare-legged, we should not have minded it so much. As for the old Minorcan, I don't suppose he cared at all. I began to think it was time to stop. "As the tide's getting lower and lower," I said to Menendez, "I suppose our chances are getting less and less." "Yes," said he; "I reckon we'd better shut up shop before long."
"Well, all gypsies are akin, they say; so maybe we could find out something about Mr. Ford's Beauty and about Mrs. Billette's silver," returned Betty. "Oh, don't talk about that," cried Mollie. "It fairly makes me sick, for I'm sure we shall never hear of the things again." "I wonder when the boys are going to try to ford to the islands?" said Grace. "The tide's getting low now."
Tides run NE. in flood and SW. on the ebb and are quite strong, the flood being the heaviest. 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. Middle Ground.
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