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"When the boys were all mustered next morning, towing a line, and holding out their paws, the first lieutenant turns round, and says, `Jervis, you were fishing last night, against my orders. `Yes, sir, said Jervis, `and I catched a first lieutenant; for Jack had a goad deal of fun in him. `Yes, sir, and queer fishes they are sometimes, replies Old Duty; `but you forget that you have also catched two dozen.
We brought in those big prep school boys and tried to give them the time of their lives, but our hearts weren't in it. We were thinking of those Mu Kow Moos that frat of all others blissfully towing home a prize they'd stumbled onto and didn't know anything about! We thought of those beautifully designed air-castles we were hoping to move into and we got pumpkins in our throats.
The sea-cocks, said the Fourth Lord, would be opened twenty miles from land so that the "Intrepid" might come in sadly down by the bows, and the "Terrific" with a list of twenty degrees, pluckily towing her sorely crippled sister.
She dived down, and got hold of his yellow legs in her teeth, but she took hold very gently, so as not to hurt him. Then she was such a fine swimmer that she managed to get to shore, towing and pulling Jimmie with her, for the water could not hurt Nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy, no matter how hard the millwheel splashed.
As soon as these last ascertained that they had captured a "squaw," they did not give themselves the trouble to get into the canoe a very difficult operation with one made of bark, and which is not loaded but they set about towing the captured craft to the shore, swimming each with a single hand and holding on by the other.
The girls had a glimpse of something like a seal, with a queer head, not unlike that of a small hippopotamus. "Look!" cried Mollie. "That was no alligator! What in the world is it?" "That's a manatee a sea-cow, some folks call 'em!" answered the ragged youth, as he poled his boat toward them, towing the Gem. "They're harmless, but I had to shoot this one to make him let go. I didn't hurt him much.
The "Orestes" took the "Pioneer," and the "Ariel" the "Lady Nyassa" in tow, for Mosambique. On the 16th a circular storm proved the sea-going qualities of the "Lady of the Lake;" for on this day a hurricane struck the "Ariel," and drove her nearly backwards at a rate of six knots. The towing hawser wound round her screw and stopped her engines.
"Furthermore," said Cassius, "occasionally we shall want to have this boat towed up or down the river, according to the house committee's pleasure, and we think it would be well to have a Janitor who has some influence with the towing company which you represent." "Can't this boat be moved without towing?" asked Charon. "No," said Cassius. "And I'm the only man who can tow it, eh?"
Their silence seemed to anger Lopez, for he upbraided them for their sulkiness. His moods changed quickly. Frowns tramped the heels of smiles. One moment he was gay, the next in despair. Arrived at the leaning oak he compelled the lads to untie both boats, towing the small skiff that had been brought by Harry and Arnold behind the big scow rowed by their friends.
Shutting and buttoning the door, he slid the trap overboard, started his engine, and headed for the next buoy. Its trap was caught among the rocks on the bottom, and Jim, unable to start it by hand, was obliged to make the warp fast and have recourse to towing. Just as it looked as if the line were about to part, the trap let go. It yielded one "counter" and three "shorts."
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