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Updated: June 27, 2025
In the rear of the gun in the bows of each craft stood a little group of men all staring intently at the floating object. The Lieutenant waved an arm to the nearest consort. "They reckon they'll take it lying down," he said grimly. "Well, I don't blame 'em!" He nodded at the figure in the wheel-house. "Full speed, skipper!" The telegraph clinked, and they moved ahead, slowly gathering way.
I expected that there would be some answer from the bows, as there should be a man on lookout there, and the faint double notes of the bell in the wheel-house should have been repeated from the ship's bell near to where I stood.
This was accordingly done, and the `devil, when lit, placed on the top of the wheel-house, all the rest of those around discharging their revolvers in rapid succession at the rascals on the forecastle to take off their attention while the firework fizzed and flared up. "This signal, however, sirs, did not appear to be observed by your vessel." "It was, though," interposed the skipper.
The firemen were seen taking them from the pile, and thrusting them one after another up the red tunnels of the furnace! The Magnolia was still gaining upon us. Already her head was even with the wheel-house of the Belle. On the latter boat the excitement increased, and the noise along with it.
"Did you never hear of him again?" some one asked. "Yes. When we reached New York I found him standing in his old place by the aft wheel-house in a dazed sort of way, with apparently no intention of going ashore; so I asked him what hotel he intended to stop at. His only answer was to hand me a letter dated some days before: "'JUNTA, Texas. "'Kitty died last night.
But the Andrew Jackson is just in from Memphis, and the Captain tells me that he spoke the Memphis packet off Cape Girardeau, and that Clarence was aboard. She picked him up by a miracle, after he had just missed a round trip through her wheel-house." By Winston Churchill A cordon of blue regiments surrounded the city at first from Carondelet to North St. Louis, like an open fan.
Well, we yawed once or twice, and motioned to him to keep off for fear he should get hurt; but he came right on afore the wheel, and I hope I may be shot if the paddle didn't strike the bow of the boat with that force, it knocked up the starn like a plank tilt, when one of the boys playin' on it is heavier than t'other; and chucked him right atop of the wheel-house.
Wouldn't you like to take a seat in the wheel-house, Miss? The wind's blowing pretty fresh." Candace was not aware that this was a distinguishing attention which the Captain did not pay everybody, and which she owed partly to her connection with Mrs. Gray and partly to her solitary look, which had touched Captain Peleg's benevolent heart.
We'd a-beat them into shucks in another quarter, I reckon. Darn the luck!" "We must give it up," said the Captain. "Turn her head in." Saying this, he hurried below; and, observing his excited manner, I followed him. A group of ladies stood upon the guard-way where the Captain descended over the wheel-house. The Creole was among them.
Too frightened to remain below, the poet raised one of the hatches by picking out the cotton batting and made his way on deck. He crawled to the wheel-house. The skipper stood lashed to the helm all stiff and stark. He bowed stiffly to the poet. The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow on his fixed and glassy eyes. The man was hopelessly intoxicated. All the crew had disappeared.
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