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Presently out of the fog came the voice of Captain Dan Hicks. "Flaherty! Flaher-tee! For the love of life, Jack, where are you? Chuck me a line, Jack. My hawser's snarled in my screw and I'm drifting on to the beach." "Leggo your anchor, you boob," Jack Flaherty advised. "I want a line an' none o' your damned advice," raved Hicks. "'Tain't my fault if you get in too close." "I'm bumping, Jack.
The hawser's fast for'd, Mr. Murphy. Cast off your stern line." "All clear for'd, sir," Matt Peasley's shout came ranging down the wind, and the tug snatched the big barkentine out from the mill dock into the stream where she cast her off, put her big towing hawser aboard, paid it out and started for Grays Harbor bar. On a certain day in February Mr.
Had the axe's edge been keener, or had a few more blows been struck, or a few more strands severed, or had the masts of the vessel crashed into the lifeboat, or the lifeboat been capsized by the hawser's mighty jerks, how different a tale would have been told!
The advance continues without interruption day and night, the launch taking a second anchor and hawser forward and dropping the anchor in advance of the first by a hawser's length, so that when the capstan has wound up the first hawser it finds a second one ready for attachment to the rope drum.
Then to give the following, and cease before the thought gets threadbare: Now, land and life, finale, and farewell! Now Voyager depart! But now obey thy cherish'd, secret wish, Embrace thy friends leave all in order; To port and hawser's tie no more returning, Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
In about a couple of leagues they found a good anchorage in fifty fathoms, a hawser's length or so from the shore. This was found to be rather inconvenient, but another one was soon found by Lieutenant Pickersgill, and received in consequence the name Pickersgill Harbour. Here the observatory, forge, and tents were set up.
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