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Down by the Docks, the placards in the shops apostrophise the customer, knowing him familiarly beforehand, as, 'Look here, Jack! 'Here's your sort, my lad! 'Try our sea-going mixed, at two and nine! 'The right kit for the British tar! 'Ship ahoy! 'Splice the main- brace, brother! 'Come, cheer up, my lads.
On the afternoon of February 21st, after making the final splice twelve miles out, we sailed into the harbour, to learn that the cable was working successfully in every detail, and that the natives of the town were overjoyed to be in communication with the world.
"The last you will ever give, my fine fellows!" observed Cain, with a sneer. In a few moments the schooner had run a mile astern of the ship. "Now then, Hawkhurst, let her come too and about; man the long gun, and see that every shot is pitched into her, while the rest of them get up a new foretopmast, and knot and splice the rigging."
"The Vice Admiral has got a hint from Sir , to kick that wild splice, young Cringle, about a bit. It seems he is a nephew of Old Blueblazes, and as he has taken a fancy to the lad, he has promised his mother that he will do his utmost to give him opportunities of being knocked on the head, for all of which the old lady has professed herself wonderfully indebted.
The mournful shake of the head was eloquently negative. "And yet you will not resume that life for which alone you were educated?" "I will not, and I cannot." "Well, you must either go on the highway or marry a fortune." "Look at this figure-head look at this scar. No no one will ever splice with such an old ravelled-out rope-yarn as Andrew Pigtop. The road is no longer a gentlemanly profession.
At 4.20 P.M. one of the noggurs carried away her yard the same boat that met with the accident at our departure; hove to, and closed with the bank for repairs. Here is an affair of delay; worked with my own hands until 9 p.m.; spliced the yard, bound it with rhinoceros thongs, and secured the whole splice with raw bull's hide. Posted sentries two on each boat, and two on shore. 28th Dec.
Reasoning on the premise that all was right at that end of the line, the splice was made, and we paid out the cable until reaching the buoyed shore end, which in turn was spliced to the deep-sea cable, and the bight dropped overboard.
"Well, maties," said one of them, at last "I spose we shan't see each other again: come, let's splice the main-brace all round, and drink to the last voyage!"
Would you lie by to hear sermons, with a flying party like ours?" "Nay, nay, we must lay to for nothing that is not unavoidable; but there are so many tacks in such a chase, when one has time to breathe, that we might as well spend our leisure in getting that fellow to splice us together.
Thus, Homer ends with lines that might as well be in the middle of a passage; Hesiod, I know not how; and Mr Bailey, the New Voice from Eurasia, does not end at all, but is still going on. There is always something more to be said, and it is always so difficult to turn up the splice neatly at the edges. He said this was a sovran way to write History.
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