Here are the quotations for the first week of the New Year
1. ...'When she was dry, I went doun the shaft-tunnel, an' found she was
leakin'; a little through the stuffin'-box, but nothin' to make wark. The
propellor had e'en jarred off, as I knew it must, an' Calder had been
waitin' for it to go wi' his hand on the gear... It had just slipped away to
the bed of the Atlantic as easy as a man dyin' wi' due warning - a most
providential business for all concerned ...
2. ...The sky behind us whitened as I laboured, and the first dawn drove
down the Channel, tipping the wave-tops with a chill glare... In succession
we looked down a lead-gray cutting of water for half a clear mile, were
flung up on its ridge, beheld the Channel traffic ... all about us, and
swung sideways, light as a bladder, elastic as a basket, into the next
furrow...
3. ...'At last he took it into his pore sick head that the ships, and
particularly the steamers that came by, - there wasn't many of them, - made
the streaks, instead of the tides as was natural. He used to sit, he told
me, cursing every boat that come along, - sometimes a junk, sometimes a
Dutch brig, and now and then a steamer rounding Flores Head and poking about
in the mouth of the strait'...'
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And here are the answers for last week (25 Dec to 1Jan)
1. 'The Man who Was', in 'Life's Handicap'.
2. 'The Maltese Cat' in 'The Day's Work'.
3. 'The Lost Legion, in 'Many Inventions'.
Best regards to all for the new Millennium
John R
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