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We feel constrained here to turn aside for one moment to advise the general adoption of that course of conduct in all the serious affairs of life. The evidence of Tim Rokens was clear and to the point. The whale had been first struck by Glynn with a harpoon, to which a drogue was attached; it had been followed up by the crew of the Red Eric and also by the crew of the Termagant.
Go you down to the office, and order me a cup of chocolate, and wait you and bring it up to me. That maudite drogue, that coffee, this morning, has made me as thirsty as a panthère." Phoeby, glancing across at Mrs. Tynn, turned somewhat hesitatingly to pick her way out of the room. The housekeeper, though not half understanding, contrived to make out that the morning coffee was not approved of.
If the drogue had become detached the fish would have been free, and both crews would have been entitled to chase and capture it if they were able. Such was the substance of the evidence of the harpooner, and neither cross-examination nor re-cross-examination by Mr Tooth, the counsel for the defendant, could induce Tim Rokens to modify, alter, omit, or contradict one iota of what he had said.
This drogue had the effect of keeping the raft running dead before the wind, and it travelled at a very respectable pace, too quite five knots an hour, we estimated its speed at for the sail was quite a big one for so small an affair; and since we had been steering for it for just about an hour, it meant that we had been decoyed some five miles to leeward of our proper course.
That was the tightening of the line attached to the handle of the harpoon. He had slidden to the end of his tether, the other end of which was fast to the drogue drifting about in the sea, as already said, on the opposite side of the carcass.
"I'm surprised to find how few of the men can state with absolute certainty that they saw the drogue attached to the whale when the boat came up to it. It all hinges upon that." "Yes," observed Mr Millons, "the 'ole case 'inges on that, because that proves it was a fast fish."
It was drogue, I say; medicine. There!" "Well, I'm sure!" resentfully returned the housekeeper. "Now, I happened to make that coffee myself this morning Tynn, he's particular in his coffee, he is and I put in " "I not care if you put in the whole canastre," vehemently interrupted Mademoiselle Benoite. "You English know not to make coffee.
Fortunately, also, he was gliding down on the side opposite to that on which floated the "drogue." These two circumstances saved him. When about half-way to the water, and still sliding rapidly downwards, his progress was suddenly arrested, or rather impeded, for he was not altogether brought to a stop, by a circumstance as unexpected as it was fortunate.
The boats of the latter over-took the fish first, fixed a harpoon in it, and lanced it mortally. The drogue and harpoon of the Red Eric were still attached to the whale when this was done, so that, according to the laws of the fishery, the crew of the Termagant had no right to touch the whale it was a "fast" fish.
Another puts on his nose a drogue, made of wood or pasteboard, in imitation of a pair of spectacles: he performs the duties of engineer, comes forward, walks away, prepares a plan, overlooks the workmen, draws lines, plays the pedant, cries out that they are spoiling the whole thing, orders the work to be abandoned and resumed according to his fancy, and makes the performance as long and as absurd as he can.
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