United States or Ecuador ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"`Very well, say I, `with all my heart; then I'll look to the bunt. "Just at that time there came on a squall with rain, which almost blinded us; the sail was taken in very neatly, the clew-lines, chock-a-block, bunt-lines and leech-lines well up, reef-tackles overhauled, rolling-tackles taut, and all as it should be.
When we go to quarters, we'll double-breech the guns. Let the carpenter have his tarpaulins ready for battening down send for the boatswain, and let the boats on the booms be well secured. Is that eight bells striking? Then pipe to supper first; and, Mr Hardy," added Captain M , as he descended the companion-ladder, "they may as well hook the rolling-tackles again."
Word Of The Day