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This plan, it was conceived, would keep Nick true to his faith, for the time being, at least. Many other points were discussed between the father and son, the latter promising if anything of importance occurred, to find the means of communicating it to his friends at the Knoll, while Parrel was to follow his master, at the end of six weeks or two months, with letters from the family.
And while the words were still upon my lips the stagnant air about me once more stirred, the great spaces of canvas beneath me swelled sluggishly out with a small pattering of reef-points from the three topsails, and a gentle creak of truss and parrel, as the strain of the filling canvas came upon the yards; and I saw the brightening disc of the sun begin to sweep round until it bore broad upon our larboard quarter.
Simultaneously, there was the shrieking of a parrel, up the main; and I knew that someone, or something, had let go the main-topsail haul-yards. From aloft there came the sound of something parting; then the crash of the yard as it ceased falling. The Second Mate shouted out something unintelligible, and jumped for the ladder.
The noise of the canvas on high resembled the stirring of pinions, and the cheep of a block, the grind of a parrel, helped the illusion, as though the sounds were the voices of huge birds restlessly beating their pinions aloft. Presently the man at the wheel startled me with an observation. I went to him, and he pointed upward with a long, shadowy arm.
I thought you were going to cut the hay-field to-day; if a heavy shower comes, it will be spoiled; it has been fit for the scythe these two days. 'Sure, it's all owing to that thief o' the world, Tom Parrel, my lady.
There was a period of time, filled only by the clicking of the pawls and the sounds of the creaking parrel and the running gear. Then the Second Mate's voice came again. "Seems all right, Sir," I heard him say. I never heard the Old Man's reply; for in the same moment, there came to me a chill of cold breath at my back. I turned sharply, and saw something peering over the taffrail.
This society is doing its work more quietly, perhaps, than many others, but a work very much needed, and a service requiring much thought and patience, Christian sympathy and tact. President, Mrs. D. Parrel, 24 Waverley Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool, Eng.; Secretary, Mrs. H. Spring, Office No. 2 Y.M.C.A. Buildings, 60 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool.
Stubbins struck a match and proceeded to relight his pipe. "How d'yer mean?" he asked, speaking for the first time. "'ow do I mean? Well, I can't say. Maybe 'e jammed 'is fingers between ther parrel an' ther mast." "What about 'is swearin' at ther Second Mate? Was that 'cause 'e'd jammed 'is fingers?" put in Quoin. "I never 'eard about that," said Plummer. "'oo 'eard 'im?
The yard rope was stoppered out on the quarter of the yard, the sheets, clewlines, and buntlines, cast off, and the shift slackened, and then simultaneously from both mast-heads the cry was heard, "Sway, away!" The parrel cut, the yard was quickly topped and unrigged, and then lowered away on deck. The next duty to be performed, was sending down the top-gallant masts.
Sir, The annexed Definition of Nautical, Names, &c. will not, I dare say, to most of your readers, be uninteresting. The Starboard is the right side of the ship, as the lar-board is the left. The Parrel is a movable band-rope, used to fasten the yard to its respective mast. Backstays are long ropes, reaching from the right and left sides of the vessel to the mast heads.
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