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There was a long pause now, during which the weary men sat apart upon the sands, or with their backs propped against the sides of the damaged boat, but at last there came a hail out of the darkness, to which Tom Tully answered with a stentorian "Boat a-hoy-oy!" "Who told you to hail, Tom Tully?" cried the gunner. "I'm chief orsifer here, so just you wait until you are told."
There's no help for it, but there's this comfort, that, bein' what she is, she'll like you all the better for it. Now, here we are at the pier. Boat a-hoy-oy!" In reply to the diver's hail a man in a punt waved his hand, and pulled for the landing-place. A few strokes of the oar soon placed them on the deck of a large clumsy vessel which lay anchored off the entrance to the harbour.
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