The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.
The river was not high, so there was not more than a two or three mile current. Hardly a word was
said during the next three-quarters of an hour. Now the raft was passing before the distant town. Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of star-gemmed water, unconscious of the tremendous event that was happening.
- The Black Avenger stood still with folded arms, “looking his last” upon
- the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing
- “she” could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips. It was but a small strain on his imagination to remove Jackson Island
- beyond eyeshot of the village, and so he “looked his last” with a
- broken and satisfied heart. The other pirates were looking their last
- too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the
current drift them out of the range of the island. But they discovered the danger in time, and made shift to avert it. About two oclock in the morning the raft grounded on the bar two hundred yards above the head of the island, and they waded back and forth until they had landed their freight.
Part of the little raft belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
- They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty
- steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some
- bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn “pone”
- stock they had brought. It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that
- wild, free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited
- island, far from the haunts of men, and they said they never would
- return to civilization. The climbing fire lit up their faces and threw
- its ruddy glare upon the pillared tree-trunks of their forest temple,
- and upon the varnished foliage and festooning vines.
When the last crisp slice of bacon was gone, and the last allowance of corn pone devoured, the boys stretched themselves out on the grass, filled with contentment. They could have found a cooler place, but they would not deny themselves such a romantic feature as the roasting camp-fire.
This seems like a cool looking WordPress theme for creating a video based website, already planning to use it in a website i am creating which will have videos of all my movies! Oops, i just revealved it. My website was supposed to be a secret until its launched.
Along with the video website a blog with this theme will be awesome too. In my opinion its simple but it has all the necessary elements you will need if you are seriously planning to start a blog which has high conversion rate. With the strategically placed advertisements i can monetize my website too!
Yay, tell me you are starting a video blog. I will be a daily visitor :)
Other great thing is you are not only limited to YouTube, you can embed videos from most of the popular video sharing websites such as Vimeo, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, Blip.tv, Zulu, etc. And you dont even need to struggle with finding the code to embed videos, you can simply use URL of the video to embed it.
I am more happy with the customization options given in this theme, i can change colors and fonts which matches my brand identity. I can also set header and background images if i want to and beauty here is all of this can be done from theme options with a few clicks.
And it does not end here if i decide to change something by writing my own CSS they have given a custom.css editor where i can put my code and they will save it into the database so i will not have to worry about losing my changes when i update the theme.
Did you notice different sidebars on different pages? With that option i can have right content at right place, I will be gutted if i was forced to display blog categories on Video detail page. I must say the small but important things were taken cared of nicely in this theme.
Yes, different sidebars on different pages is sensible. But did you notice this comment form below? It lets me enter my comment first and then the formalities like asking my name, email address, etc comes. It sound like a small thing but see how it affects while some visitor comes to comment on your website.