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Updated: May 11, 2025
O, there's nothin like navigatin the Bay o' Fundy to make a man feel contempt for the wind. Give me tides an anchors, I say, an I'll push along." The wind was blowing fresh, and the sea was rising, yet the fog seemed thicker than ever. The boys thought that the wind might blow the fog away, and hinted this to the captain. His only response was a long and emphatic whistle. "Whe-e-e-ew! what!
Did you come up by train or steamer?" "Schooner," says Valentina. "You know all that cypress you saw 'em yankin' out of the swamp back of the Point? Well, suh, it's lumber now, every stick. Sold, too. That's what me and pop came up for." "You don't say!" says Warrie. "How much?" "Near nine thousand," says she. "Whe-e-e-ew!" says Warrie. "Now I suppose you'll be moving into Tampa."
I sat there all the afternoon, not even unhitching my teams, listening as the afternoon drew on toward night, to the bitterns crying "plum pudd'n'" from the marsh, to the queer calls of the water-rail, and to the long-drawn "whe-e-ep whe-e-e-ew!" of the curlews, as they alighted on the prairie and stretched their wings up over their backs.
Just inside the door they paused and looked at each other. "Whe-e-e-ew!" murmured Cappy Ricks. "All the shipping men in the world are here to bid on our property, Gus." Mr. Redell whistled softly. "This," he said, "will be some auction!" Cappy chuckled.
I tried again and asked if she'd seen many of the new plays, and the next thing I knew I was bluffing through a dialogue about Galsworthy and Masefield and Sudermann on an experience strictly limited to musical comedies and Belasco's latest. Whe-e-e-ew! I made my escape after that. Say, isn't it a shame a girl with eyes like hers should know so blamed much?"
"Well," says he, "who was she?" "Why," says I, "the Lady Mildred." "Whe-e-e-ew!" says Mr. Robert, through his front teeth. "Not the one that spells such with a T?" "Ah, chee!" says I. "What's the odds how she spells, so long as she's got Lillian Russell in the back row?
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