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Short-handed though we were, matters fell back into the old ship routine, with the exception that the watches kept were against something more serious than the weather.
"There's another wants to try it," said Officer Kiely to Officer Macey. "I have my mind he'll get his fill," returned the latter, quietly. They had been in strikes before. The barn at which Hurstwood applied was exceedingly short-handed, and was being operated practically by three men as directors.
"In the first place, as you know very well, we're short-handed now, and we can't spare the men from the work. In the second place, we'd hang up sure, then; to go up in that wilderness, fifty miles from civilisation, would mean a first-class row of too big a size to handle. Won't do!" "Suppose you get a lawyer," suggested Denning sarcastically. Orde laughed with great good-humour
Meanwhile, as the crew dwindled and the ship became short-handed, they snugged her down until at last they had nothing set but the close-reefed fore and main topsails and the fore topmast staysail, and under that canvas she entered the Sound, hove-to, and signalled for assistance.
"That is good news," I remarked, when Saunders had completed his report; "for, short-handed though we are, I think it may be possible for us to get the ship afloat again. Then if, as you, Gurney, have suggested, there happens to be a channel carrying depth enough to float us, we may yet hope to find our way into open water once more.
"They'll do very well, and, as we are rather short-handed, no more could be spared from the frigate." "Then all I have to do is to wish you good-bye and a pleasant cruise. It's fortunate we had not to fire into her, or the vessel must have gone into harbour to refit. Now she's as well able to keep the sea as she ever was."
Sunday, 24th August Fairly afloat Taking command The white ensign Mission of the Alabama The Modern Tar At the pumps Blowing hard A fruitless chase Short-handed The Ocmulgee. Sunday seemed destined from the very first to be a notable day in the annals of the new Confederate cruiser.
No one who understands the affection of a naval officer for an able seaman, especially if his ship be short-handed, will need to have explained how difficult it became for him to distinguish between an Englishman and an American, when much wanted.
The officer bundled the Spaniards into the boat and left ten Englishmen to take their places, apologizing to Captain Sol for leaving him so short-handed. The Industry generally had a crew of twenty-five or thirty men. Then the officer got into the boat and rowed away. Captain Sol was to take the Industry to Gibraltar, which was right on the way to Leghorn, too.
The mates and some of the French crews were sent on board the Albion; but two or three blacks and several Frenchmen remained on board the ships to help to navigate them. Still we were all together but very short-handed. The other prize was the Nautile. She was a very handsome ship, and soon gave evidence that her sailing qualities were superior to those of the Mouche.
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