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The captain shouted, now: "Call the mate. Tell him to call all hands and get a lot of that sugar forrard put her ten inches by the head. Lively, now!" "Aye-aye, sir." A riot of shouting and trampling floated up from below, presently, and the uneasy steering of the boat soon showed that she was getting "down by the head."
Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc.; the coal passers moved to their duties in the profound depths of the ship, explaining the blackness of their faces and their uncouthness of dress, with the reminder that they were "a handful of private citizens, traveling simply for recreation," etc., and when the cry rang through the vessel at midnight: "EIGHT BELLS! LARBOARD WATCH, TURN OUT!" the larboard watch came gaping and stretching out of their den, with the everlasting formula: "Aye-aye, sir!
This curious combination of characters shows that the aye-aye is a very specialized form that is, one whose organization has been slowly modified to fit it for a peculiar mode of life. From information received from its native country, and from a profound study of its organization, Professor Owen believes that it is adapted for the one purpose of feeding on small wood-boring insects.
It wailed through the swaying branches of the trees, and swept our decks in fitful gusts. Things were taking on an ugly look. The captain shouted to the steersman on the forward log: "How's she landing?" The answer came faint and hoarse from far forward: "Nor'-east-and-by-nor' east-by-east, half-east, sir." "Let her go off a point!" "Aye-aye, sir!" "What water have you got?" "Shoal, sir.
Tom stood amidships, gloomy-browed, and with folded arms, and gave his orders in a low, stern whisper: "Luff, and bring her to the wind!" "Aye-aye, sir!" "Steady, steady-y-y-y!" "Steady it is, sir!" "Let her go off a point!" "Point it is, sir!"
Caleb stood upon the steps of the porch, and grasping the great handle of the bell with both hands, he rang it with all his might. In a minute or two he stopped; and then he heard a faint and distant "Aye-aye" coming, from a field. Caleb put the bell back into its place, and then went again to his grandmother. In a few minutes Raymond came in.
She saw Katharine and exclaimed: "Here you are! Do prevent William from torturing this unfortunate aye-aye." "We thought we'd lost you," said William. He looked from one to the other, and seemed to take stock of Denham's unfashionable appearance. He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing one, he remained silent.
"No, I'm doing something to that portion of me just now. But hang onto the yard, Gusterson." "Aye-aye, Cap'n," he assured her. Then, turning back to Fay, "So you've taken the Dr. Coué repeating out of the tickler?" "Oh, no. Just balanced it off with depressin. The subliminals are still a prime sales-point. All the tickler features are cumulative, Gussy.
Two foot large, on the stabboard, two and a half scant on the labboard!" "Let her go off another point!" "Aye-aye, sir!" "Forward, men, all of you! Lively, now! Stand by to crowd her round the weather corner!" "Aye-aye, sir!"
"Overhaul your clewlines!" shouts the mate. "Aye-aye, sir, all clear!" "Taut leech! belay! Well the lee brace; haul taut to windward!" and the royals are set. What would the captain of any sailing-vessel of our time say to that? He would say, "The man that wrote that didn't learn his trade out of a book, he has been there!"
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