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Updated: June 28, 2025
The crust soon bore, and it was found that the sledges furnished even better means of transportation than the wheels. There was a little controversy about the use of the skins, Daggett continuing to regard them as cargo. Necessity and numbers prevailed in the end, and the whole building was lined with them, four or five deep, by placing them inside of beckets made of the smaller rigging.
It is in the beckets, just inside the door of my berth. Here's a strange sail to leeward, and I want to take a squint at her." I found the telescope, and carried it on deck myself. Master Harold slung it over his shoulder, and in another minute was perched on the long tapering yard of the lateen mainsail. "What do you make her out to be?"
Our tall, thin commander had just turned round to take his spy-glass from the beckets in which it hung, when a petty officer, a knowing fellow, who had slipped through the gun-room passage in order to take advantage of the other men, springing on deck, butted right into the pit of his stomach. The blow, doubling him up, sent him sprawling over on his back, with his legs in the air.
I became good friends with the Beckets, and before coming back to England I made an offer to Miss Allen that was the governess's name. She refused me, and I was conceited enough to wonder what the deuce she meant." Glazzard laughed. He was listening with more show of interest. "Well," pursued Quarrier, after puffing vainly at his extinguished pipe, "there was reason for wondering.
"Here we are!" cried Murray; "Heaven be praised I was afraid that I should scarcely be able to make out the life-buoy, it is getting so dark." He placed Jack's hand on one of the beckets, and took another himself, and together they climbed up, and sat on the life-buoy.
The long row of casks, filled to the brim and tightly bunged, were towed off by us to the ship, and ranged alongside. A tackle and pair of "can-hooks" was overhauled to the water and hooked to a cask. "Hoist away!" And as the cask rose, the beckets that had held it to the mother-rope were cut, setting it quite free to come on board, but leaving all the others still secure.
By the time he had finished speaking I had snatched the glass from its beckets, and was half-way up the weather main rigging, while the watch was sheeting home and hoisting away the topgallant-sails and royals.
The partners had not told him of their troubles, but telling was not necessary. He had seen and heard enough. "They are right on the ragged edge of goin' on the rocks," vowed Isaiah. "Zoeth, he's that thin and peaked 'twould make a sick pullet look fleshy alongside of him. And Cap'n Shad goes around with his hands rammed down in his beckets " "In his what?"
George began to feel a trifle nervous as he watched the silent, stealthy approach of the stranger; and fetching his speaking-trumpet from the beckets in the companion-way, where it always hung in company with the telescope, he stepped aft to the taffrail and hailed "Ship ahoy!"
Not that I cared so much for being refused employment, but for the manner in which the hotel man had spoken to me. I did not propose to give up at that, but started away, more than ever determined to find employment. I did not want to impose on the Beckets, notwithstanding that they still assured me of welcome, and moreover I wished to do something to help them, even more than myself.
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