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One nail had hit between two bricks and got home, and from this depended, sustained a little insecurely by frayed and knotted blind-cord, Parload's hanging bookshelves, planks painted over with a treacly blue enamel and further decorated by a fringe of pinked American cloth insecurely fixed by tacks.
This necessitated frequent tacks, so that, overhead, the mainsail was ever swooping across from port tack to starboard tack and back again, making air-noises like the swish of wings, sharply rat-tat-tatting its reef points and loudly crashing its mainsheet gear along the traveller.
Two strips underneath, a few tacks, and it's as good again as ever." The other lads carefully gathered up the scattered chessmen and announced that not one of them was injured. "Thank you, boys," said Colonel Talbot. "It is a pleasing thing to see that, despite the war, the young still show courtesy to their elders.
It was not in the power of the man-of-war's men for some time to profit by this circumstance, owing to their having kept too much in shore for doubling the headland. After two tacks, they accomplished this, and observed the chase on fire and apparently deserted.
Well, Tacks was up here the other day, nailing up some trellis-work at the top of a ladder, and all the time there was Master Bingo sitting quietly at the foot of it looking on; wouldn't leave it on any account. Tacks said he was quite company for him. Well, at last, when Tacks had finished and was coming down, what do you thing that rascal there did?
"No, not Fender," says I, "nor Footboard, or anything like that: just plain McCabe." "It is a word of respect," says he, "such as Sir Lord; thus, Effendi McCabe." "Well, cut out the frills and let's get down to brass tacks," says I. "You're here because you're here, I expect. But what else?" He sighs, and then proceeds to let go of a little information.
If I were an owner I should tell all shippers that no goods would be received within five or six hours of the ship's time for sailing; that would give us a fair chance, instead of starting all in a muddle, just at the time, too, when more than any other one wants to have the decks free for making short tacks down these narrow reaches.
It is said they lasted over ten years. The first nails, or tacks, were made of steel at Bridgewater, Mass., at about the same date. Some thirty years ago there were but two Bessemer converters in the United States, and the manufacture of steel did not reach then five hundred tons per annum. In 1890 the product was more than five million tons.
The men to the mast-head, who were up there to shift tacks, were having a sweet time of it hanging on, even lashed though they were. Everybody was pretty well strung up at this time. The skipper, a line about his elbow, was hooked up to the main-rigging the weather side, of course and it was up to a man's waist and boiling white on the lee side.
The two men being well used to it, did a great deal in a short time; and Mrs Jarley served out the tin tacks from a linen pocket like a toll-collector's which she wore for the purpose, and encouraged her assistants to renewed exertion.
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