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As long as we're to leeward of him the game is his; but let's get to wind'ard of him and it's ours to do what we like with it."
There's queer things to be heerd, too, in them parts: cries to wind'ard like a drowndin' man, and you can't never find him; noises right under the keel; bells ringin' off the land like, when you a'n't within five hundred miles of shore; and curus hails out o' ghost-ships that sails agin' wind an' tide. Strange! strange! I declare for't! seems as though I heerd my old mother a-singin' Mear now!"
The stores will be goin' into her while ye're workin', and within the week I expect to see the Idaho Lass showing her heels to the Presidio. You see the point now, boys. If ye beat the scoovy his name is Petersen, and his boat is called the Elftruda we're to the wind'ard of a pretty pot o' money. If he gets away before you do well, there's no telling; we prob'ly lose the island."
The second evenin' the wind freshened from the south'ard and east'ard and drove the fog in shore a bit, and the sun, just before he set, looked like a big yellow ball through the fog and made a sickly kind of a glimmer over the water. They was a-lyin' at anchor, and all of a sudden, right to the wind'ard of 'em, this old ship loomed up, driftin' in with the wind and flood-tide.
"Well!" he exclaimed at last, "it is clear enough that it is no use for an ignorant man like me to try to argue with an educated gentleman like you; you are bound to go to wind'ard of me the very first tack, and I was a fool for attempting it. But there are other matters which, in my opinion, fully justify the step we have taken."
Daisy pinched his nose through the bars, and the meeting was rather tumultuous for a moment, for Emil called: 'Avast, avast, here's a squall to wind'ard'; Tom applauded wildly; Dan looked up as if the prospect of a fight, even with words, pleased him, and Nat went to support Demi, as his position seemed to be a good one.
"True, Martin," said Adams; "and that shell reminds me of what Captain Bligh once told me, that the natives o' the Gambier Islands, which must lie to wind'ard o' this, have a custom of puttin' a shell under the heads of the dead in this fashion.
Now, in the ol' days, I've seen a dozen whales to wind'ard an' we couldn't get to 'em at all. By the time we'd beaten 'round to where they'd been sighted, they were gone." "Well, I hope this is a 'right' whale," Colin said with emphatic earnestness. "Why this one 'specially?" the old sailor asked.
Whenever a ship is found in an African river with a lot of casks aboard, that ship is after palm-oil at least, so her skipper will tell ye. And that's where they get to wind'ard of us; for unless they've something more incriminating something pointing more directly to an intention to traffic in slaves than mere casks, we daren't touch 'em.
I will now close the Sunday-school, trusting we shall do all we can during the week to help the cause of the burying-ground and of religion. As soon as Brother Birds'll arrives, we can begin social meetin'." "It 's natch'all he should be late; somebody said 't he was havin' pickled shad for dinner." "Here he comes now, beatin' to wind'ard," said Captain Pharo from the window. "He'll make it!
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