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"Come here, Dick," he said to a little cabin-boy who clung to a stanchion near by. "Get in." The boy looked surprised, and drew back. "Get in, I say," repeated the skipper sternly. "There's more women, sir," said the boy, still holding back. "True brave lad! but you're wanted to keep these from getting washed out. I am too heavy, you know." The boy hesitated no longer.
Three other shots followed the first, one of the balls passing through the boards of the pilot-house, above the helmsman's head; and he saw a splinter fly from a stanchion forward. Captain Pecklar waited for the fourth shot, and he had evidently noticed how many men had muskets in their hands, then he sprang out from his hiding-place, sighted the gun, and pulled the lock-string.
The pilot braced both feet against a stanchion and tried to take the weigh off her by pulling. "Half speed, sah! Go slow, sah! Go dead slow, sah! You'll pile up you-ah damn ship, sah! Ah tell you, sah, you'll pile her up as suah as hell, sah! 'Bout a million sharks round he-ah, sah! For the love o' God, sah Captain, sah "
After a great deal of trouble, he managed to reach into the launch and pull out a rope, which he fastened round the girl's waist and drew tight to a small stanchion. Then he climbed into the boat himself, and pulled her after him.
On clearing away the clothes I perceived a ring similar to that in the lazarette hatch, and it rose to my first drag and left me the hold yawning black below. I peered down and observed a stout stanchion traversed by iron pins for the hands and feet. The atmosphere was nasty, and to give it time to clear I went to the cook-house and warmed myself before the fire.
"Keep close there," said Woods, as Frank came up. "The corporal says he saw some guerrillas on the bank." Frank accordingly concealed himself behind a stanchion, and his hand trembled considerably as he cocked his musket and brought it to his shoulder. They remained in this position for nearly a quarter of an hour, when, suddenly, something stirred in the bushes.
In a moment I was out of my state-room, at the bulwark, holding fast to a stanchion, and looking over the side at the white and seething water caused by her sudden and violent stoppage. The sea was comparatively smooth, the night pitch-dark, and the fog deep and impenetrable; the ship would rise with the swell, and come down with a bump and quiver that was decidedly unpleasant.
One of the men and the lady were in blue. The other man, who seemed very tall and stood with his arm entwined round an awning stanchion above his head, was clad in white. Lingard saw them plainly. They looked at the brig through binoculars, turned their faces to one another, moved their lips, seemed surprised.
"The cap'en, I know, thought it would blow by and by, for before he turned in he caused even the reefed top-sails and stay-sails to be taken in, and left her snug for the night, with only a close-reefed main-sail and the jib on her. "`Keep a good look-out, Mr Stanchion, says he to the chief officer, as he went down the companion-ladder to his cabin, `and call me if there's the slightest change.
Then on the still night air came the belated cry for help, but it was after the foot had slipped and the hand had been wrenched from the iron stanchion. "A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of " kicking up a row "Then America declared war on England." History of 1812
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