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"Trunnell has been took off, fer sure. I don't mind stickin' aboard th' bleedin' hooker if there was a chanst to get th' salvage; but no fear o' that while Andrews is here. He'll block any argument to divvy up. Seems as we might even get down under her bilge durin' this spell av weather, an' see where th' leak is located. 'Tis a butt started, most like.
As it was, the "Merrimac," with a powerful wrench, drew out of the wreck she had made, loosening her iron prow, and springing a serious leak in the operation. She drew off a short distance, paused to examine the work she had done, and then, as if satisfied, started to complete the destruction of the "Congress." And well might the men of the "Merrimac" be satisfied with their hour's work.
If he was a plumber, as he said he was, it might be that he had been in the apartment house on other occasions to repair breaks. But Alice was not certain. "And yet I've seen him before, and lately, too," she thought. The girls was in the hall, now. The man, who seemed ill at ease, had followed and stood near. "The leak wasn't a bad one; it is repaired now," he said. "I I didn't know Mrs.
The Connecticut has a leak and is listing to starboard," said the telephone. "Three degrees higher!" ordered the lieutenant. A shot from the left barrel. "Splendid," cried the lieutenant; "that was a fine shot! But lower, lower, we're merely shooting their upper plates to bits," and the gun went on steadily firing.
At that time Holland enjoyed, in her colonies, almost a monopoly of the coffee trade of the world, but that one little tree broke her monopoly, just as one little leak in her dikes led to the eating away of miles of earthen wall and an in-rush and devastation of the sea. For Louis was more clever than some other kings, almost clever enough to have been in trade, or else he had smart advisers.
There came an hour in which she did not rise to the waves as she had been doing, an hour when the leak gained terribly, and when the Fledgling, struggling bravely, if wearily, upward to meet a wave, would stop half-way with a jerk and a sigh, the wave gouging along the deck breaking over the stern-board. They could feel her going in the pilot-house.
Having stopped his leak, he took his cargo on board again, and his health being infirm, he engaged Captain William M'Neil* to go with him, and on the 20th of June sailed for Norfolk in Virginia, and, on the 22nd, came to in Hampton road, at the mouth of the river on which Norfolk is.
In a few minutes he had ascertained that about two feet of deck, the shape of a wedge, had been staved close to the hatch combings; in fact it had never been fastened with nail or bolt. He shouted at the top of his voice, "I have found the leak!" And the little band of men re-echoed with wild delight: "The big leak is found, hurrah! Down with the ensign."
"As you have asked my aid, I would advise your calling the watch below; and I'll go down with the carpenter and see whether we can spy out the leak." "Oh, by all means, if you think that will do any good, although I'm of the opinion that the leak is in the stern. McCarthy, call the port watch up to go below and break cargo!" "All hands, ahoy!"
"You begin to comprehend you begin to see how it is. While our descendants are living sumptuously on our money, right around us in the city, we have to fight hard to keep skull and bones together. Bless you, there isn't a grave in our cemetery that doesn't leak not one.
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