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Updated: July 19, 2025
"I was rather encouraged though it seemed too delightful to be true," I admitted. "Men are blind especially when they're in love. You understand motor-boats better than you do girls." "I dare say," I said meekly. "She's so nice to you because she means to punish you by-and-by, for humbling her pride. I'm warning you, as a reward for saving my treasured lamb.
"Different owners," was the reply, "every man has his own color. Every day, or every other day at least, he sails out to the grounds some of 'em now have motor-boats and makes a round of his pots. A chap whose buoy is yellow has perhaps a hundred or two yellow buoys scattered about the harbor." "That sounds like work," said Colin. "It's hard work," was the reply.
"No, but I can make this boat run. Look, the propeller hasn't dropped off at all! The set screws of the sleeve have become loose and the propeller shaft didn't turn, that was all." If any of you know anything about motor-boats, you know that the shaft which passes through the stuffing box, and to which shaft the propeller is fastened, is joined to the shaft of the engine by a coupling, or sleeve.
For Gatun police launch is one of those peculiar motor-boats that starts the same day you had planned to.
Passing tugs, motor-boats, ferry-boats blew their whistles every kind of a boat that had a whistle blew it and there was an excursion boat loaded down with women and children. Her band had been playing ragtime, but it suddenly stopped and broke into "Good-by, Good Luck, God Bless You," to the troop-ship bound for France.
Sails of snow glistened here and there on the bosom of the Bay, while motor-boats and what-not darted this way and that impudently among the stately ships of the fleet. In one corner of the room stood a sewing-machine, and on the long table were piles of mimsy stuff out of which feminine creations are constructed.
The only idea I can think of is to scare her and make her bolt quick and sudden, and I want you to provide the means." Selby was waiting. "I bought a motor-boat, one of those swift motor-boats that the Government used during the war. I have it ready at Twickenham, and you can get all your goods on board and go to " "Where?"
Word had passed throughout the parish that the Lieutenant-Governor was to be present, and all during the morning people kept coming, some by motor-boats, and others by teams. They brought their dinners with them, intending to make a holiday of it. Even Tom Dunker was there with his family.
The fact is, while I was hanging on to the edge of your hole and getting my breath, I had a sudden idea a really brilliant idea connected with motor-boats there, there! don't take on so, old chap, and stamp, and upset things; it was only an idea, and we won't talk any more about it now.
"If you are going with the boys on the river, Jack, you will have to get a motor-boat. Won't you let me buy you one?" "No, not a bit of it, Dick." "But you want one?" "Certainly, and I am going to have one." "But motor-boats cost money, Jack. Why, mine cost me " "Never mind what it cost, Dick. You spend a lot more money than I can afford to spend, and you have a gilt-edged affair, of course.
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