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You may thank Trapp all your life for cutting that short when he did, and thank God you can yet be an honest wife to an honest man." As he thus spoke there came a watery feeling into his eyes, and a yearning to take the girl to his heart and brave all the world for her sake. He hated the long fellow as he had never done before, and cursed him in his heart while he praised him with his lips.
"Not to-day. Lord knows what we may come to, but to-day 'tis mackerel and whiting; later on, pilchards." He took me down to the quay; and there, sure enough, we stepped on board a boat lying ready, with two men in her, who fended off and began to hoist sails at once. Mr. Trapp took the helm.
He walked slowly and with a very slight limp, but seemed to quicken his pace a little, and kept ahead of us. The barracks being full just then, many soldiers had their billets about the town, and that one should be abroad at such an hour was nothing suspicious: yet my eyes were still following him when Mr. Trapp halted and knocked at the Jew's door.
Trapp when I showed him the letter and put my request; "only don't let her swell you out of shape. Chimbleys is narrower than they used to be. May-day is Sweeps' Holiday, too, though we don't keep it up in Plymouth: I dare say the lady thought 'pon that. In my bachelor days I used to be Jack in the Green reggilar." "It's just as well I never saw ye, then," said his wife tartly.
On August 27th Miss Elaine Golding swam from the Battery, New York City, to Steeplechase Park Pier, Coney Island, a distance of about 14 miles, in 6 hours 1 minute. Raymond Frederickson finished first in a swim of the U.S. Volunteer Life Saving Corps from the Battery to Coney Island in 6 hours 2 minutes 30 seconds. On September 3d Miss Adelaide Trapp swam from North Beach to St.
She began to mother me at once; and on the very next morning took my clothes in hand, snipped the ridiculous tails off the jacket, and sent it, with the breeches, to the dyer's. The yellow waistcoat she cut into pin-cushions, two for upstairs and two for the parlour. Having no children to save for, Mr. Trapp could afford to feed and clothe an apprentice and take life easily to boot. Mrs.
The rocks composing the bed of the river at the cataract, which are of trapp formation, disappeared at about eight miles below it, when the river immediately assumed another character. Its banks became of equal height, which had not before been the case, and averaged from fifteen to eighteen feet. They were composed entirely of alluvial soil, and were higher than the highest flood-marks.
Trapp instructed me well and I listened, setting my small jaws to choke down the terror: but, once started, with his voice guiding me from below and growing hollower as I ascended, I found that all came easily enough. "Bravo!" he shouted up from the far side of the street, whither he had run out to see me wave my brush from the summit.
In time I grew bold enough and used to begin my "Sweep, Swee eep!" at the mouth of the alley to warn Mrs. Trapp of our return. My first chimney daunted me, though it was a wide one, belonging to a cottage, well fitted with climbing brackets, and so straight that from the flat hearth-stone you could see a patch of blue sky with the gulls sailing across it. Mr.
It turned out that he owned a share in the vessel and worked her from Midsummer to Michaelmas with a crew of two men and a boy. I was to be the boy. We baited our hooks and whiffed for mackerel as we tacked out of the Sound. The wind had fallen to a flat calm. After dinner Mr. Trapp looked up and said to Isaac: "Got a life-belt on board?" "What in thunder do 'ee want it for?" asked Isaac.
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