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Updated: June 15, 2025
The last of a strong ebb was running out in channel in the teeth of an ocean breeze of forty miles an hour. I could see the stiff whitecaps, and the suck and run of the current was plainly visible in the face and trough of each one. I set sail, cast off, took my place at the tiller, the sheet in my hand, and headed across channel. The skiff heeled over and plunged into it madly.
And, oh say, you know the whitecaps aren't they just like the waves was motioning at you they want you to come and beat it with you over to China and places." "Why, Mr. Wrenn, you're a regular poet!" He looked doubtful. "Honest; I'm not teasing you; you are a poet. And I think it's fine that Mr.
I'll take you there. We flew all night long, and next morning the fishermen were looking toward the sea, crying, 'There is a poor little man drowning, and I knew it was you, because my heart told me so and I waved to you from the shore " "I knew you also," put in Geppetto, "and I wanted to go to you; but how could I? The sea was rough and the whitecaps overturned the boat.
It took them just an hour to cross the island of Ceylon, and flying at about fifteen hundred feet, they winged their way out over the whitecaps of the ocean. To their unspeakable pleasure they found the winds not at all bad, and made good speed. Bob was at the throttle, Paul was observing, and John and Tom were sleeping.
"I see of course that there are a few little whitecaps on the water, but I wouldn't be afraid to row across the lake in our old punt." Glory Goldie, who did not seem to mind the gale, remained on the pier. But Katrina, to keep from being blown to pieces, went into the freight shed and crept into a dark corner behind a couple of packing cases.
Preoccupied at first, her mind burdened with vague anxieties, she nevertheless could not fail to be aroused and stimulated by the sparkle and effervescence of the perfect morning, and the cold, pure glitter of Lake Michigan, green with an intense mineral hue, dotted with whitecaps, and flashing under the morning sky.
Over the decks of the latter clambered several score German seamen who had been fished from a watery grave. A stiff wind had come up out of the southeast and was kicking the sea into rollers with whitecaps. However, the men of the Dewey, armed with life preservers, steadied themselves on the turtle-back deck of their craft, and started the hunt for swimming Germans.
The breeze had freshened before they set the sail, and there were whitecaps on the water when the Selache headed for the ice, which had somewhat changed its formation, for big masses had become detached from it and were moving out into the water, while the open space had become perceptibly narrower.
He spluttered and looked about for Archer, but could see nothing in the darkness. He did not want to call for he knew how far voices carry across the water, and though the spot was isolated he would take no chances. It rained hard and the wind, rising to a gale, lashed the black water into whitecaps.
The raft was gently but none too slowly gliding out toward the tumbling whitecaps. Always methodical, the Babe laid his rod and his string of fish carefully down on the logs, and then stood for a second or two quite rigid. This was one of those dreadful things which, as he knew, did happen, sometimes, to other people, so that he might read about it. But that it should actually happen to him!
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