Excerpt: ... sitting quietly in the stern. The Chief was again at the wheel. I found some canvas, part of a sail-cover, and stretched myself out on a seat, with the canvas over me to keep off the dampness. In a minute or two I was asleep, -the best and most refreshing sleep I ever remember. All through the rest of the night I was dimly aware of the sound of the water about the bows, and the cool breeze on my face. When I woke it was broad daylight. The boat had come to a stop, the mainsail was down, and they were taking in ...
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Excerpt: ... sitting quietly in the stern. The Chief was again at the wheel. I found some canvas, part of a sail-cover, and stretched myself out on a seat, with the canvas over me to keep off the dampness. In a minute or two I was asleep, -the best and most refreshing sleep I ever remember. All through the rest of the night I was dimly aware of the sound of the water about the bows, and the cool breeze on my face. When I woke it was broad daylight. The boat had come to a stop, the mainsail was down, and they were taking in the jib. I heard the anchor go over with a splash, and then Pete came running aft. "Hullo! Awake? How are you?" "All right. Where are we?" "I don't know. Unknown island." I sat up and looked over the starboard side of the boat. We were in a little bay, and there was land about a hundred yards distant, -a rocky island with pine trees, and two or three small cottages set amongst the trees. I heard someone talking on the other side of the boat, and I looked up forward to see Sprague, in a bathing suit, and Gregory the Gauger. Sprague was entertaining the Gauger with a poem which he had been reciting at intervals ever since we met him. "'She'd git her little banjo an' she'd sing Kulla-lo-lo!'-but not in Bailey's Harbor, -hey, what? She wouldn't get her little banjo there, or you'd run her in, wouldn't you, Squire? You and the Constable!" "Where did you get that poem?" asked Pete, who was furling the sail. "I read it in a paper last week. Isn't it great? It's by a man with a funny name, -I wish I could remember it! 'An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!' That's the way the dawn does come up over there, isn't it? Ever been in China, Squire?" "No, I haint," said Gregory. "Where be you fellers goin' to put me ashore? That's what I want to know." "All in good time, Squire, all in good time. Watch this, -I bet you can't do it!" And Sprague made a clean dive and scoot under the water, came up thirty feet away, and...
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