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The fire in the camboose sufficed as yet; and, at evening, the pee-jacket, with the shelter of the building, the crowded rooms, and the warm meals, for a long time enabled them to get on without consuming anything in the largest stove. Stimson's plans for the protection of the hut, moreover, soon began to tell.
This gives a life to the skin that acts much the same as a suit of clothes. Yes, gentlemen; put a fellow in a tub for a minute or two of a mornin', and you may do almost anything you please with him all day a'terwards. One pail of water is as good as a pee-jacket. And above all things, keep the stoves clear.
This is the antarctic dog-days, Gar'ner," answered Daggett, laughing, "and we must make the most of them. A man can move about without his pee-jacket at noon-day, and that is something gained; for, I have heard of ice making in the bays, even at mid-summer." "We are not in a high enough latitude for that, thank heaven, though pretty well south too.
But few get as far south as I have been, to pass a winter. A good pot of hot coffee of a morning will go as far as a second pee-jacket, if a man has to go out into the open air when the weather is at the hardest." "Luckily, our small stores are quite abundant, and we are better off for coffee and sugar than for anything else. I laid in of both liberally when we were at Rio."
"I never heard tell of his disturbing nobody," said Tom. "Just take him off his notions about the ten vargins and their lamps, and the judgment day, and I don't know a likelier man than old Holden. In my opinion, he's a cleverer fellow than Davenport, by a long shot." "I don't believe he's been caught," said a man in a pee-jacket, who, from his appearance, was a fisherman.
"Ditter, captain, if you please ditter: it is the continental word for round-about." "The d -l it is! it is worth knowing, however. And what may be the French for pee-jacket?" "You mistake me, sir, ditter, a circuit, or the longer way." "That is the road we are now travelling, by George! I say, Leach, do you happen to know that we are making a ditter to America?"
That pee-jacket is the best article in the chest, and, sent across to the Harbour, about the time the ships are going out, it would bring enough to maintain Daggett a month!" Such had been the character of the widow's visitations to the chest, though no one knew anything of her discoveries, not even her sister-relict, neighbour Stone.
Dodge's opinion of the phrase, pulling off his pee-jacket, and laying aside his sow-wester; "a cap-full of wind, with just enough drizzle to take the comfort out of a man, and lacker him down like a boot." "The ship has gone about?" "Like a dancing-master with two toes. Six hours on this course, and we make a fair wind of it." "And the sloop?"
Hazard "ay-ay'd" this order, as usual, buttoned his pee-jacket tighter than ever, and saw his young superior the transcendental delicacy of the day is causing the difference in rank to be termed "senior and junior" but Hazard saw his superior go below, with a feeling allied to envy, so heavy were his eye-lids with the want of rest.
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