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As I dived from the skiff my head encountered a solid something which made me see a thousand flashes av lightning in one second. I was so stunned that I had only instinct I belave ye call it that to throw my ar-rum around the murthering object and hold like death. Ye know, judge, how drownin' men will hold to straws. That straw, yer Honor, was the spar of a vessel movin' through the water.
Their eyes are big as saucers, an' they're made just to see things the cuttle-fishes want to kill; an' they've got a hundred arms, with suckin' claws on the ends, an' they jest search an' seek, search an' seek, with them dreadful eyes that ain't got no life but hate an' appetite, an' they stretch out an' feel, stretch out an' feel, with them hundred arms, till they git what they want, an' then they lay hold with all the suckers on them hundred arms, an' clutch an' wind, an' twist an' overlay, till, whether it's a drownin' sailor or a ship, you can't see nothin' but cuttle-fish, an' "
Their work was done when it 'adn't begun, they was younger nor me an you; Their choice it was plain between drownin in 'eaps an bein mashed by the screw, An' they stood an' was still to the "Birken'ead" drill, soldier an sailor too!
In a flash the frail craft was caught in the conflicting currents, it careened and capsized, and the two men were battling for life in the whirlpool. Sandy was so intent on escape that he had gone some distance down stream before realizing he was no longer pursued. Suddenly an agonizing cry was borne on the midnight air: "Help! Help! I'm drownin'!"
You see, when I were nine yeer owd, my father gave me two gimmer lambs an' I were prouder yon day nor iver I'd bin i' my life afore. Weel, that were t' day that had coom back; I knew nowt about drownin', but theer was I teein' a bit o' ribbin' about t' lambs' necks an' givin' 'em a sup o' milk out o' a bottle. An' then I were drivin' wi' my father an' mother i' t' spring-cart to Driffield markit.
Peace reigned for fifteen minutes; then came a loud crash from the cellar, followed by a violent splashing, and wild cries of, "Oh, oh, oh, I've fell into the pork barrel! I'm drownin', I'm drownin'!" Down rushed Christie, and the sticky innocents ran screaming after, to behold their pickled brother fished up from the briny deep.
"I reckon it will mightily astonish her when I tell her how harmless the torrent is lookin'." He held out to his pony a slice of bread matted with sardines, which the pony expertly accepted. "You're a plumb pie-biter you Monte," he continued. Monte rubbed his nose on his master's shoulder. "I wouldn't trust you with berries and cream. No, seh; not though yu' did rescue a drownin' lady."
What, Auntie? I didn't hear anything." "I thought I did. Sounded as if somebody was and they are! Listen!" Emily listened. From without, above the noise of the wind and rain and surf, came a shout. "Hi!" screamed a high-pitched voice. "Hi! Let me in. I I'm drownin'." Thankful rushed to the door and, exerting all her strength, pushed it open against the raging storm.
That gal Clementina Harcourt and that feller Fletcher had met not only once, but MANY times afore yes! they were old friends if it comes to that, a matter of six years ago." Grant's eyes were fixed eagerly on the speaker, although the others scarcely turned their heads. "You know, gentlemen," said Peters, "I never took stock in this yer story of the drownin' of 'Lige Curtis. Why?
Them eight men aboard that brig, now never was a rougher piece o' piracy since Morgan's day than his makin' those beggars walk the plank. Stood there an' roared an' laughed, he did, an' pricked 'em behind till they tipped the board. An' then to stop us from drownin' a blasted little rat that'd tried to kill us all! Oh, he's bad, is Stede bad!" Jeremy gave a start as this soliloquy progressed.
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