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Sometimes they would themselves eat seal meat, and though the Twigs were fond of it, and Charley had pronounced the meat excellent when he and Toby were starving on Swile Island, he now thought it strong and not as palatable as he would like. On the last day of June Skipper Zeb's trap boat, calked and made tight, was launched, and Skipper Zeb announced: "Well, now!
Prudy, forgetting what she was about, waved the hot brand to and fro under Old Zeb's nose, stinging his eyes with smoke. Between confusion and suffocation, his face was a study. "You seem astonished, all of you. May I ask why?" "To tell 'ee the truth, young man," said Prudy, "'twas a case of 'talk of the devil an' you'll see his horns." "Indeed. You were speaking good of me, I hope."
I guess Zeb's yarn was too much for him; he doesn't like to be praised." "So? Was he here? At the Regular parsonage? I'm surprised." "He and I have known each other for a long while." "Well, I'm sorry he's gone. I think I should like him." Keziah turned from the door. "I know you would," she said.
And at length, out of the leaden wrack, there emerged a small schooner, with tall, raking masts, flying straight towards them. "Dear God!" muttered some one, while Ruby dug her finger-tips into Zeb's arm. The schooner raced under bare poles, though a strip or two of canvas streamed out from her fore-yards.
How crude it had seemed to him that day when Toby led him up the path, and he had first met Skipper Zeb! How comfortable and hospitable it seemed to him now! How many memories it held for him! Early one morning there sounded the long blast of a whistle, and presently the mail boat appeared in the tickle, and came to in the offing. There was great excitement in Skipper Zeb's cabin.
She tossed it, bit by bit, over the west wall of the churchyard, where in time it became a mound, covered high with sting-nettles. If you poke among these nettles with your walking-stick, the odds are that you turn up a scrap of rusty iron. But there exists more explicit testimony to Zeb's wedding within the church and within the churchyard, too, where he and Ruby have rested this many a year.
There were boats to be hauled out of the water and covered, that they might be protected from the ice and snow, fishing gear and boat equipment to stow, and much cleaning to be done about the fish stage and cabin. Then there was Skipper Zeb's big trap boat to make ready for the voyage up the bay.
The wily Keziah alighted at the parsonage gate with the feeling that she had sown seed in fertile ground. She was quite aware of Captain Zeb's jealousy of the great Daniels. And the time might come when her parson needed an influential friend on the committee and in the Regular society. The news of the engagement between Captain Nat Hammond and Grace Van Horne, told by Dr.
"Come, Zeb," said William, taking the boy gently by the arm, and looking compassionately into the black face. "Food!" He shouted the word at him as if he were deaf, but poor Zeb, completely bewildered by these strange, meaningless sounds, only shrank away from him and looked about as if seeking a way of escape. Daniel immediately sprang from the pillion and seized Zeb's other arm.
We'll be stayin' here as snug as a bear in his den and listen for that whistle." "But do you think she'll come back?" insisted Charley, with a suspicion that Skipper Zeb's answer had been evasive. "That's a question! That's a fair and square question, now," admitted Skipper Zeb. "You asks un fair and I'll answer un fair. The folk on the mail boat misses you.
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