The Skipper was mighty angry; he seemed somehow ashamed of them, and hurried out of port as quick as he could when he made his mind up.
She had more than her complement of men, and her skipper volunteered the information that two of them were friends whom they were taking to join their own boat which was waiting for them at Burnt Island.
Most of them were drunk or getting a jag on them; and it took the two sober ones and the Skipper to keep them in order.
The skipper was vex'd, and he curs'd and he swore, That his nose had ne'er led him se far wrang before!
What's that to say To the bonny fray We had wi' skipper Robin, O?
Here is your daughter," the skipper said; "Give me the one I love instead.
Both were pleasant to look upon, But the heart of the skipper clave to one; Though less by his eye than heart He knew the twain apart.
The skipper sailed out of the harbor mouth, Leaving the apple-bloom of the South For the ice of the Eastern seas, In his fishing schooner Breeze.
Way below Stony P'int an' a fair wind in her sails,' the skipper answered.
If its skipper had entertained suspicions they were dissipated by the presence of Solomon Binkus in the barge.
He was going to sea at the time, skipper of one of the sailing ships of the Bank Line, when he married Agnes Hewitt.
The skipper chuckled at the joke, and his tired blue eyes were merry for the moment.
The pilot grunted, while the skipper swept on with his glass from the launch to the strip of beach and to Kingston beyond, and then slowly across the entrance to Howth Head on the northern side.
The skipper straightened up, and to conceal the pang at his heart he drew out his watch and looked at it.
Governor Landholm and some company," said the skipper in a more moderate tone.
The skipperstood on the rocks and looked into the water.
With a sort of additional chill at her heart, she looked round for some one else of whom to ask her question, and saw the skipper just come on deck.
Winthrop was standing close beside her, talking with the skipper; but he knew that his little sister had hold of his hand and had laid her unbonneted head against his arm; and when the skipper left him he stooped down to her.
The skipper represented that his vessel had passed so often into and out of the castle as to be hardly liable to search by the guard on its entrance.
At last, on their way back, they came upon the skipper at the village of Terheyde, who made the extraordinary excuse that he had overslept himself and that he feared the plot had been discovered.
But the calm and wary skipper who stood on the deck instantly commanded his companion to work at the pump with as much clatter as possible, assuring the persons present that the hold was nearly full of water.
No suspicion of treachery occurred to any of the party, although it became obvious that the skipper had grown faint-hearted.
Wednesday, being King's Proclamation Day, the vessel could not be cleared at the Custom House; and on Thursday the skipper announced that he should not set out until Saturday.
Skipper Simms kept the men busy painting and holystoning as a vent for their pent emotions.
Five men stood behind Skipper Simms and Ward, but there were two revolvers upon that side of the argument.
These things attended to, Skipper Simms with the balance of his own crew and six of the crew of the Lotus to take the places upon the brigantine of those left as a prize crew aboard the yacht returned with the girl to the Halfmoon.
The medium used by the skipper for impressing his ideas of discipline upon Billy was a large, hard stick.
Ward and Skipper Simms had been among the first to seek the precarious safety below deck.
Are you game, or shall I have to go back to Skipper Simms and Ward and tell them that I caught you eavesdropping?
Skipper Simms, subdued for the moment, soon commenced to regain his bluster.
Let me see if I can't handle him, sir," said Theriere to Skipper Simms.
Theriere laughed in the man's face; but Ward and a couple of hands who had been shown favoritism by the skipper and first mate closed menacingly toward the second officer.
In answer to the query of the Lotus' captain Skipper Simms was explaining their trouble.
That's a long head you carry on your shoulders," admitted the skipper of the speed craft.
Not a sign," replied the skipper of the Comfort; who was anxiously keeping tabs on his engine, as though he had reason to fear a repetition of the former trouble.
Apparently many unseen hands held it tight, as though unwilling to let the reckless skipper have another chance.
Apparently the skipper of the stranded craft had succeeded in dragging his crew out of the mire, for there was a dripping figure on the forward deck, scraping the mud away, and evidently more or less bubbling over with various remarks.
Then, as Jimmie took hold of the wheel, the skipper raised the glasses for a look, while George awaited his report with ill-concealed eagerness.
Later on, after everybody had declared themselves satisfied, Jack beckoned to the skipper of the Wireless.
It's pretty late in the afternoon anyhow," declared Josh, who was secretly worried for fear lest his rather reckless skipper might want to put forth again.
Boats as small as ours seem out of their element on an ocean," continued the skipper of the Wireless, steadily.
Yes, I believe you're right," returned the skipper of the Wireless, as he once more turned his attention to his engine.
If one seemed to be going ahead, the skipper immediately busied himself stopping the advantage.
Not ten minutes after the skipper spoke, it was clear enough to both of us that the boat must go about, whether we wanted to or not, and we waked the other boy, to send him forward, before we accepted the necessity.
Such failure in duty made me grimly smile as I omitted to stop and put up these fish in alcohol, and as I plied the unconscious skipper with inquiries about his boat.
The skipperhailed them in Dutch, and again in French, these being the only languages he spoke.
They took him home and skinned him, and sold the skin that same year to a Dutch skipperfor thirty shillin'.
Evidently the skipper had heard nothing to arouse his suspicions.
The skipper sympathized and advised a rest in the cabin.
If you hadn't quarrelled with that tugboat skipper over some girl or other, all this wouldn't have happened.
Now I will merely state that, in my opinion, to get his sickly crew into the sea air and secure a quick despatch for his ship a skipper would be justified in going to any length, short of absolute crime.
We saw theskipper looking out anxiously at the reef I have described.
Our skipperwalked over to where the carpenter was employed in putting the boat to rights; but soon saw that there was a good day's work or more before she could be made to swim.
As the skipper shook hands, he looked Mr Clare all over at a glance, and smiled as if pleased with the inspection.
I, for one, did not at all like the condition of the boat; still, as the skipper had hitherto said nothing, I did not like to propose that we should try to land on the reef.
One story led to another, and at length our skipper came out with one which was voted, by general acclamation, to be superior to all the others.
In the meantime our skippercame up, and ordered us to turn back and beat about the wood.
The barque was towed to windward of all these, and then the baronet stopped the Flying Fish altogether, and hailed the skipper of the whaler to know whither he was bound.
The skipper of the whaler, however, shouted down to them from his elevated perch the intelligence that a somewhat intricate but continuous channel extended through this ice in a northerly direction as far as the eye could reach.
Note the well-ordered craft and its Skipper so jolly, With friends, down to Marlow, he's taking to dine.
When the skipper had got the mill on his back he did not stay there long, for he was so afraid that the man would change his mind, and he had no time to ask how he was to stop it grinding, but got on board his ship as fast as he could.
At first the man would not hear of parting with it, but the skipper begged and prayed, and at last the man sold it to him, and got many, many thousand dollars for it.
After a long, long time came also a skipper who wished to see the mill.
The skipper he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now west, now south.
Illustration: The Wreck of the Hesperus] [Illustration] It was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company.
It was on a sparkling morning in February that we sighted the familiar toe of Kent Island, and the good-natured skipper put about and made for the mouth of our river.
All that Dorothy need do at Portsmouth is to curtsey to the first skipper she meets, and I'll warrant he will carry us all to the antipodes.
A very excited officer yelled at them through a speaking-trumpet, and she lay and lollopped helplessly on the water while Disko ran the We're Here under her lee and gave the skipper a piece of his mind.
At this the skipper danced on the bridge and said something about Disko's own eyes.
It's plumb mortifyin' to all my feelin's," the skipperwent on.
That's fwhat Steyning of Steyning and Hare's f'und when he sent Counahan fer skipper on the Marilla D.
In Miquelon champagne's eighteen dollars a case and--" The skipper lurched into his seat as an organ-prelude silenced him.
Guess it's the fust time her skipper ever met up with the Fleet this way.
Tom Platt and the others jeering at the skipper because, for once, he had led them to the edge of the barren Whale-deep, the blank hole of the Grand Bank.
The Wreck of the Hesperus It was the schooner Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter To bear him company.
The skipper he stood beside the helm, His pipe was in his mouth, And he watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, now South.
The fat, jovial skipper of the Persian Gulf eyed Peter with beady, cunning eyes, and Peter was suddenly conscious of a sinking sensation.
The skipper left him, doubling back in the direction of the wheel-house.
The skipper was an interesting, typical sea-dog from the waters of the North Sea, and a thorough God-fearing man.
To the utter amazement of the skipper and his two colleagues the action of tipping the cart shot into the hole, with considerable force, the corpse of a Belgian.
One happened to be the skipper of one of the trawlers which had been sunk and he vehemently denied the charge that they had been guilty of laying or sweeping mines.
