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Updated: June 19, 2025
And it was particularly interesting to observe how powerfully anything in the nature of real music, like some of the airs of Braham, Purcell, Dr Arne, and Sir H. Bishop, appealed to these simple savages; a sentimental ditty, such as "The Anchor's weighed" or "Tom Bowling," would hold them breathless and entranced; "Rule, Britannia!" or "Should He upbraid" set them quivering with excitement; and they seemed to know by intuition that "The Sailor's Hornpipe" was written to be danced to, and they danced to it accordingly a wild, furious, mad fandango in which the extraordinary nature of the gambols of the performers was only equalled by the ecstasy of their enjoyment.
The merry sound of the drum and fife, and steady tramp of the men round the capstan on the main deck continued until, anon, the boatswain once again reported to the Honourable Digby Lanyard, as he stood surveying the progress made in heaving in from the knight heads, "Anchor's weighed, sir."
He rummaged in his pocket and produced a little parcel of tissue paper, which he handed to her. It was only a small silver anchor, with Scotch pebbles inlaid in it. The woman's eyes, however, flashed as she looked at it, and she raised it to her lips and kissed it passionately. "God bless it and you too!" she said. "I've heard tell as the anchor's the emblem of hope, and so it shall be with me.
"Hoist the parson's traps aboard; and sheer off you. Anchor's apeak." He then gave his orders in stentorian roars; the anchor was hove up, catted and fished; one sail went up after another, the Proserpine's head came round, and away she bore for England with a fair wind.
Despite his resolution Harry felt a pang when the last figure disappeared. "Our curiosity bein' gratified, I think we'd better go back to sleep," said Jarvis. "The anchor's weighed, farewell, farewell!" "We're seein' 'em goin' south, Harry. I dream ahead sometimes, an' I dream with my eyes open.
"Her anchor's down. Mr Jones, a lead over the side, and see what water we have." Mr Jones had long been carried down below, severed in two with a round shot but a man leaped into the chains, and lowering down the lead sounded in seven fathoms.
'Tis but a wooden sailor, after all. I hoped such a ship would boast a seaman as master. I'll show thee seamanship, sheep-heart!" Out of the darkness astern came a roar: "Anchor's down! Heave away!" And from the darkness aloft Stumpy bawled: "There she flares! Mother o' me!"
"Clane out some of their dirty ould drains, I'm thinkin'." Then he spoke of Martin, whom he had seen off, saying he would surely come back. "'Deed he will though. A boy like yander wasn't born to lave his bark in the ice and snow . . . Not if his anchor's at home, anyway" with a "glime" in my direction. How the glen sang to me that morning!
I was on the topgallant forecastle all the time, superintending the operations there, and as soon as I saw the cable swinging with the heave of the ship, "Anchor's aweigh, sir!" I sang out. "Thank you, Mr Chester. Now put your helm hard-a-port, my man; over with it smartly. She has stern-way upon her and is driving in toward the shore. Now she pays off. Trim aft your lee headsheets, forward there.
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