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"Forward, there let go the foretack!" he hailed joyfully, bareheaded and brisk; "Square the foreyard, you port-watch!" "Fair wind fair wind," muttered the men going to the braces. "What did I tell you?" mumbled old Singleton, flinging down coil after coil with hasty energy; "I knowed it he's gone, and here it comes." It came with the sound of a lofty and powerful sigh.
Having made his choice he bade the man selected go over to the starboard side, while the commander of the port-watch made his choice. When all the men had been chosen, and the crew "divided into two parts," then each man was bidden to choose "his Mate, Consort or Comrade." The bedding arrangements of these old ships were very primitive.
It seems that Snowball, while in the galley about midnight, had heard Moody talking to two or three of his especial "pals" in the port-watch; and, thinking from his knowledge of the man that he was up to some mischief, the darkey had listened thereby indulging a propensity which was Master Snowball's weak point, that of being inordinately curious about other people's business!
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