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Bill Nevins, my engineer, and a landsman who was to work the h'istin' engine, looked kind 'er peaked when what was left of the jib come rattlin' down on his fo'c's'le hatch, but I says to him, 'the Screamer's all right, Billy, so she don't strike nothin' and so long's we can keep the water out 'er. Can't sink 'er any more'n an empty five-gallon ker'sene can with the cork in.
So I made a jump for the rope ladder and shinned up the brig's side so as to take a hand in landin' the stone properly on the brig's deck so as to save her beams and break the jar when I lowered the stone down. I had one eye now on the stone and the other on the water, which was curling over the Screamer's rail and makin' for the fo'c's'le hatch.
"I leaned over the brig's rail and could see the slop of the sea combin' over the Screamer's fo'c's'le hatch. Bill's fires would be out the next minute. There was just two feet now 'tween the stone and the deck where I stood too much to drop; but there was nothing else to do, and I hollered: "'All gone.
I have only to speak of the bird as a part of the visible world and as it appears to the non-scientific lover of nature; for, curiously enough, while anatomists nave been laboriously seeking for the screamer's affinities in that "biological field which is as wide as the earth and deep as the sea," travellers and ornithologists have told us almost nothing about its strange character and habits.
Marrows remembered that he had been out to the Ledge himself when the Screamer came up into the wind and crawled slowly up until her forefoot was within a biscuit toss of the stone pile. What Marrows forgot was that Captain Bob Brandt of Cape Ann had then held the spokes of the Screamer's wheel, a man who knew every twist and turn of the treacherous tide.
Everything alive that has had the misfortune to be possessed of large unwieldy feet has been added to this feeble-minded cowardly group, until it has become a mixed multitude with discordant voices and with manners and customs having no consonance or relation." The screamer's right to dwell with the geese has not been left unchallenged.
It would cost me my commission if I should try to do what you have done. "'Well, gentlemen, I says, 'what was wrong about it? What's the matter with the Screamer's rig? "'Well, the size of the rope for one thing, says the Colonel, 'and the boom. "'Well, p'haps you ain't looked it over, I says, and I began unravelling an end that stuck out near the shackle.
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