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I'll look like an observation ballooner, or whatever you call 'em." "Good idea," said Tom, "and look!" "A souveneerr?" cried Archer. "The best you ever saw," Tom answered, rooting in the engine tool chest by the aid of the flashlight and hauling out a pair of rubber gloves. "What good are those?" said Archer, somewhat scornfully. "What good! They're a passport into Switzerland."
Tell ye what, Harry, lad; that topsail of our'n is a good un a rare good un for a reach, and in a moderate breeze; but we ought to have a `ballooner' for running off the wind in light weather a whacking big un, with a `jack' as long as the bowsprit, and a yard as long as the lower-mast. I'm beginning to think we are under-sparred and under- sailed." I could scarcely agree with Bob in this.
"By George, Harry," exclaimed he, "if they Emeralds bain't shifting topsails, I'm a miserable sinner! Ay, there goes his `ballooner' aloft. His lordship don't like the looks of our tail, seemin'ly; but I doubt whether, in this light breeze, his big topsail will enable him to catch us. My eyes! how we did slip through his lee, sure enough!
With what an ease and majesty she comes along, scarcely dipping to the slight summer waves, while they on board notice that she has put out her long spinnaker boom, ready to hoist a great ballooner as soon as she is round the lightship and running home before the wind. The speed at which she cuts the water is now visible enough as she obscures for a second or so the hull of the lightship.
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