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"Hogan, go dip that flag on the jury mast wiggle it up and down let 'em know something is wrong make 'em think we have the rickets if nothing else." Two men ran off with Hogan to the forward bridge; the others stared, waved, shouted and let their excitement bubble down. "But I don't understand a sailing vessel in these waters," speculated Leonard. "Maybe it's a derelick?" surmised Galton.
"I've 'card as 'ow this was a great place for derelicks." "'Ow could she be a derelick," argued Mulcher, "w'en she 'as so much canvas aloft? You run up on derelicks an' git sunk, ever' cove knows that." "I carn't think of hall these things at once!" retorted Galton. "Perhaps she ees the Vulcan under sail with deesabled engines?" suggested Deschaillon.
I had news that mornin' she was lyin' there derelick, and I was just slippin' down the coast to have a look at her when you two spoiled me lay by takin' me ship." It was now that Harman began to laugh. "Well, if that don't beat all," said he. "And maybe, since you were so keen on havin' a look at her, you've brought wreckin' tools with you in case they might come in handy?"
It was apparent soon to the old sailor's eye what was amiss with her. "She's derelick, bad cess to her!" he muttered; "derelick and done for just me luck!" "I can't see any people on the ship," cried Dick, who had crept forward to the bow. "Daddy's not there."
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