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What we had not counted on was the fierceness of the stimulus like the taste of blood to a carnivore or, to the true knight, a glimpse of the veritable Grail. All the following day I spent on board, overseeing the hundred minor patchings and calkings a South Sea trader will want in port.
In a few minutes, the two sisters had constructed, with the straw of their couch, the calkings necessary to intercept the air, and to render suffocation more expeditious and certain. The hunchback said to her sister, "You are the taller, Cephyse, and must look to the ceiling; I will take care of the window and door." "Be satisfied, sister; I shall have finished before you," answered Cephyse.
It is asserted that all soil pipe is tested to a 50-pound water pressure. Having obtained a satisfactory lot of soil pipe and fittings, the next trouble comes with the lead calking. Unfortunately, it is frequently found that very shallow joints are made instead of deep ones, and hard lead used instead of soft. My rule is, soft lead, two runnings and two calkings.
In a few minutes, the two sisters had constructed, with the straw of their couch, the calkings necessary to intercept the air, and to render suffocation more expeditious and certain. The hunchback said to her sister, "You are the taller, Cephyse, and must look to the ceiling; I will take care of the window and door." "Be satisfied, sister; I shall have finished before you," answered Cephyse.
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