For this purpose he lightened his vessel, thrust her into some narrow inlet where she would be left high and dry at low water, fastened blocks and tackles to her masts to pull her over on to her bilge, and then scraped her thoroughly from rudder-post to cut-water.

" The regulation of the Eclipse mill is accomplished by the use of a small adjustable side vane, flexible or hinged rudder vane, and weighted lever, as shown in Plate 1 (on the larger sizes of mills iron balls attached to a chain are used in place of the weighted lever).

It looked as if they were entering the lagoon; and then he heard the telegraph and the rattle of rudder chains.

But in the meantime we had sprung our rudder-head (the same sort of accident as befell the 'Great Eastern').

No sooner, however, did he feel the rudder strike, and hear the tumult of the rushing sea, than he began to cry for aid.

The air-ship was going against the wind, and the man in the basket evidently had full control, for the amazed people on the tower saw the air-ship turn right and left as her navigator pulled the rudder-cords, and she rose and fell as her master regulated his shifting ballast.

The water only washed her rudder-case, and the captain noticed, to his dismay, a thin coating of ice fringing the shore of the inlet.

"Are you in search of rudder-fish, my friend, that you hang so closely under my counter?" demanded Wilder.

It was pointed like a needle at one end, and at the other was fashioned into a tiny rudder arrangement, the purpose of this being to hold it upright-point downwardas it descended.

He went under the ship, and attempted to fix the wooden screw into her bottom, but struck, as was supposed, a bar of iron running from the rudder-hinge.

After that we took photographs ad lib and McCutcheon had a trip with Ingold, a great aviator, in a biplane, which the Germans call a double- decker, as distinguished from the Taube or monoplane, with its birdlike wings and curved tail rudder-piece.

She proved to be the armed schooner Gen. Boliver; by grounding she broke both her rudder pintles and made water; took from her her armament, consisting of one long brass eighteen pounder, one long brass six pounder, two twelve pounders, small arms, &c., and twenty-one packages of dry goods.

With what tools still remained from the time when all surplus weight had been jettisoned, and with some improvised apparatus, they set vigorously to work repairing the engines, fitting new rudder-plates, patching up the floats and providing the burned propellers with metal blades.

Let loose the rudder-bands, Good angels lead thee!

They had gone on for perhaps half a mile, when Betty, who was sitting comfortably in the stern, toying with the rudder ropes, uttered an exclamation.

The continual shake of the cabin, the creak of the rudder-beam working to and fro, the watery thunder of the wheel, and the solemn rumble of the engines made conversation impossible until the travelers grew accustomed to the noises.

We had gone but a little way when our rudder-cable snapped, the steering-wheel turned useless, and Gadabout headed for the marsh woods.

For now, as then, men are inevitably separated into two classesamiable men of ease, who guide their conduct by the rudder-strings of pleasurewho for the most part "leave the world" (as has been finely said) "in the world's debt, having consumed much and produced nothing"; or, on the other hand, zealous men of duty, "Who scorn delights and live laborious days", and act according to the dictates of their honour or their conscience.

" "A bird does not row with his tailhe steers with it, as if it were a rudder; and the long feathers are therefore called rudder-feathersor rectrices, which is Latin for rudders.