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By and by we heard pumping, hosing, deck-washing, the paddling of bare feet to and fro, and all the familiar sounds of an early morning at sea. The ship, however, was motionless: we were lying stock-still. Doubtless everybody was wondering at this, as I was, when there came a crash, followed by a small avalanche of broken timber, while the ship quaked in her watery bed.
At the top, Mac turned and patted me on the elbow, my shoulder being a foot or so above him. "Good boy!" he said. "And if that shirtfront and tie didn't knock into eternal oblivion the deck-washing on the Ella, I'll eat them!" I deserve no credit for the solution of the Ella's mystery.
They went to look for the younger boys, and came across an agile little chap with his head done up in bandages, working with a deck-washing crew aft of Turret Number Three, which had been wrecked by a Hun shell. "It's Ikey!" shouted Torry. "What's the matter with your head, Ikey?" "Don't say a word," said Ikey, shaking his bandaged head.
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