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Updated: June 3, 2025
"I'm sore all over from poling that clumsy old boat up-river. And once I hit the straw you'll never hear a peep from me till morning." "Move we adjourn!" sang out Toby, so suddenly that he actually neglected to stammer. "All in favor say 'Aye'!" Max proceeded to observe; and immediately a chorus of approval was the signal to send them hurrying into the tent.
I had to ask him to speak up, for he mumbled like a boy who has been caught out, and knows it is useless to pretend. I learned from him that he was only just beginning his voyage. You understand? He was just beginning it, there. He was going up-river, to a point not on the chart.
From there we'll get up-river to this valley town and visit Carlos Mendozo on his cocoa plantation. Depend on it he'll be able to set us on the track, somehow or other." "Oh! it seems like a strange dream," said Andy, as he raised the piece of bark to his young lips, and passionately kissed it, regardless of the fact that some one passing the post office might notice him.
"Sir Charles and his party have come back, sir." "From the up-river expedition?" "Yes, sir. I got hold of one of the chaps who went with him." "Well, go on; I'm burning to hear. What have they found out?" "He says, sir, that the Major did not want Sir Charles to go, and they had words together. He heard Sir Charles say the attack was made on the boat up the river, as well you and me know, sir."
Listen! What you hear?" "It sounds like wind in the tops of the trees," answered Hippy after a moment of listening. "No wind. Willy know." "What is it, then?" "Water! Dam up-river go out. Water come down! Mebby logs come down, too!" "What! The dam built by the timber-thieves? It isn't possible. There is not enough water in the dam to cause the roar I hear." "Plenty water.
I would not dare it at all except that it will be five years before I am eligible for tax-gatherer, and the waiting is killing me. A city of my own " Piper, Jack Odin gathered, was a very ambitious man. The boat moved up-river in darkness. There were beacons upon the shore, turning this way and that, but they seemed to be trained a bit high this night.
Nor would he proceed farther on his journey till he had watched his brother-in-law get safe to land; then, with a twist of the paddle, he brought his own craft round, and continued towards the sunset. Two miles up-river, in the middle-stream, stood a rocky island; as yet it was only a dull grey speck in a pathway of red. They pushed on in silence up the straight, dark grove of mysterious forest.
About this time, also, she went and prevented two tribes from fighting: although her heart was beating wildly she stood between them and made each pile their guns on opposite sides of her, until the heaps were five feet high. On another occasion she stopped and impounded a canoe-load of machetes that were going up-river to be used in a war. Mr.
However, somehow he pitied him just now; perhaps because of the manner of his address, which had brought into sharp contrast their present relations with those of other days. "There's the island up-river to the westward, where I keep my dogs in summer-time; if that will suit your purpose." Spurling showed his pleasure at the suggestion, and, hurrying his steps, led the way down to the river-bank.
A little flurry of sparks drove over the spot he fell upon, and then a maddened surge of gaunt steers. Tedge wondered if he should go finish the job. No; there was little use. He had crashed his fist into the face of a shrimp-seine hauler once, and the fellow's neck had shifted on his spine and once he had maced a woman up-river in a shantyboat drinking bout Tedge had got away both times.
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