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To be sure, young Bannister laid his head on the table an' greeted like a bairn, an' Calder was all for callin' on Steiner at two in the morn an' painting him galley-green; but they'd been drinkin' the afternoon. Lord, how they twa cursed the Board, an' the Grotkau, an' the tail-shaft, an' the engines, an' a'! They didna talk o' superfeecial flaws that night.
He's a verra decent body a bit near maybe, an' terribly superfeecial i' antiquarian knowledge. I mind I had a bit differ wi' him the time he was last up at the Camp. 'But supposin' I was inclined to be ceevil till him what then?
There's no power on earth will fend it just jarrin' off. "'When? "'That's beyon' my knowledge, I said. "'So it is; so it is, said McRimmon. 'We've all oor leemitations. Ye're certain it was a crack? "'Man, it's a crevasse, I said, for there were no words to describe the magnitude of it. 'An' young Bannister's sayin' it's no more than a superfeecial flaw!
She'd a great clumsy iron twelve-foot Thresher propeller Aitcheson designed the Kites' and just on the tail o' the shaft, behind the boss, was a red weepin' crack ye could ha' put a penknife to. Man, it was an awful crack! "'When d' ye ship a new tail-shaft? I said to Bannister. "He knew what I meant. 'Oh, yon's a superfeecial flaw, says he, not lookin' at me. "'Superfeecial Gehenna! I said.
Ony rollin''s better than pitchin' wi' superfeecial cracks in the tail-shaft. Calder knows that much, I said. "'It's ill wark retreevin' steamers this weather, said Bell. His beard and whiskers were frozen to his oilskin, an' the spray was white on the weather side of him. Pairfect North Atlantic winter weather!
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