Later in the morning came a similarly sized set of common dolphins, racing from one side of the boat to another and leaping alongside it in a behavior called bow running.
Their left hands crawl like manic spiders up and down the long necks of the instruments while the other hand controls the bow running across the strings.
He makes bows and runs bow-making workshops.
With a murmured "Let's go outside," Mr. Takenouchi then drew his audience to the street and took several sets of bows, running nearly nude up the dark, cold street, hand in hand with his musician.
Start on Market Street near the Sheraton Hotel and run southeast through downtown, on Marcy Street, through Prescott Park and by the water on Bow Street, running as close as you can past old houses and wharves.
Later: "Bob Ballard had pointed out to me a crack in the starboard bow that ran for more than a hundred feet".
And there is Stanford's own half love affair with easeful Death, who appears in various guises — as a cool hipster in shiny loafers and a Cadillac, as a man in a bow tie running a hotel.
This was done on the ship by a man with a stopwatch, by throwing a box overboard from the bow, then running to the stern, clocking the time it took to pass the box.
The male common blackbird defends its breeding territory, chasing away other males or utilising a "bow and run" threat display.
They took their bows, then ran upstairs to change clothes quickly.
