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From: | Agatha Lyon |
Subject: | [Adsyc-user] plentifully shuck |
Date: | Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:38:08 +0200 |
Many frigate birds were still in the air, blown
this way andthat in wild confusion. Insteadof, Have you heard about Singapore? I
know that only a few yards away the seas areinundating the land.
If the children had not been with me I should have
been lessfrightened. Midnight: I have just been on a tour of inspection during a
lull in therain.
For a moment I stared at her inmingled amazement
and admiration.
We had missed being swept around the south point by
a matter ofyards and seconds!
In the cockpit are the engine controls, the
binnacle, and a thirty-six-inchhardwood wheel.
He grinned rather alarmingly and stretched out his
hand. When we got to the clearing we found the cowboys playing blackjack
byfirelight. Yes, thats me, I replied, somewhat abashed by his mannerism. Iwondered
what the men aboard the cutter must be thinking and feeling!
The whole ocean seems to have raised its mean level
by aboutsix feet. Below, elegance has been sacrificed for simplicity.
Ialways slept in the little h-h-half shelter aft. I
cried, trying, but probably failing,to put the same warmth into my tone. He grinned
rather alarmingly and stretched out his hand. Pratt sits with his back toa house
post and smokes cigarettes. A canvas shelter stands on the bridge deck, like the
hood of a buggy. It seemedimpossible for a vessel to live in that confusion of
foaming seas. At Rarotonga B-B-Bill Bryan told me to keep a sharp lookout
forthem.
It seems incredible, or rather unreal, as does all
newsfrom the outside world.
A man is a fool to fret over the inevitable
They are here now, andtheyll have to stay until the
weather moderates.
Vagus is the finest little vessel I have ever seen,
heard of, or dreamed of. Oh well, I suppose that most of us in the South Seas
acquire similarcharacteristics. Perhaps I made a mistake by straddling thehouse
between two trees.
Then heclosed the scuttle and we all climbed into
the canoe.
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