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The brig was immovable, and Barny finished with a duet volley of prayers and curses together, apostrophizing the hard case of a man being "done out o' his nor-aist coorse." "A-hoy there!" shouted a voice from the brig, "put down your helm or you'll be aboard of us. I say, let go your jib and foresheet, what are you about, you lubbers?"
The stranger still remaining on the opposite tack, Captain Delmar then hailed from the gangway "Ship, a-hoy!" There was a death-like silence on board of both vessels, and his voice pierced sonorously through the night wind. "Ah! yaw!" was the reply. "What ship is that?" continued Captain Delmar.
At that moment a halloo was heard faintly in the distance, and, soon after, a raft was seen approaching, guided, apparently, by two men. "Raft a-hoy! Where d'ee hail from?" shouted the mate. "From nowhere!" came back promptly in a boy's ringing voice. "You've got on a coral reef," shouted a powerful voice, which, we need scarcely say, was that of Dominick Rigonda, "but you're safe enough now.
It appeared, from Captain Cuttle's explanation, that the great Bunsby, like himself, was cruelly treated by his landlady, and that when her usage of him for the time being was so hard that he could bear it no longer, he set this gulf between them as a last resource. 'Clara a-hoy! cried the Captain, putting a hand to each side of his mouth.
There is a settled routine for hailing ships at sea: ``Ship a-hoy! Answer, ``Hulloa! ``What ship is that, pray? ``The ship Carolina, from Havre, bound to New York. Where are you from? ``The brig Pilgrim, from Boston, bound to the coast of California, five days out. Unless there is leisure, or something special to say, this form is not much varied from.
"Ay; but it's gospel your Honour," I heard the man reply; and, I believe, sailors do hand down to each other a tradition of that kind; for there is a figure of speech, and it is nothing more, with which the English men-of-war's men used to hail the lobster smacks going up the Thames. "Smack a-hoy! hand us a few lobsters, or you know what'll happen!"
This was so far satisfactory, and for some time things continued in pretty much the state we have just described, but soon after there was a sudden cessation of the straining motion of the ship which surprised everyone. In another moment Ruby shouted "All hands a-hoy! ship's adrift!" The consternation that followed may be conceived but not described.
No other word was breathed by either of the adventurers, as they threaded the giddy path, until about midway, when the elder paused and exclaimed, "A-hoy there, boy! there are two steps wanting; you had better indeed go back. To me, the track has been long familiar; not so to you." The youth thought of his master's taunt, and Jeromio, and resolved to take his chance.
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