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He turned and saw moving toward him through the shallow water now covering the flat beyond the next channel, the cart he had seen leave the shore by the packet wharf, and, later, on the outer bar. The horse was jogging along, miniature geysers spouting beneath its hoofs. The driver waved to him. "Hold on, mate," he called. "Belay there. Stay where you are. I'll be alongside in a shake.
He sang the devil-may-care lines on and on, lifting the crew to the work and to the chorused emphasis of "Whiskey for my Johnny." And to his voice they pulled, they moved, they sang, and were alive, until he interrupted the song to cry "Belay!"
Hazel hung his head in confusion and dismay. "Come, get out of my cabin, Parson Alias," shouted the mate; "and belay your foul tongue in this ship, and don't make an enemy of Joe Wylie, a man that will eat you up else, and spit you out again, and never brag. Sheer off, I say, and be d d to you." Mr.
"Overhaul your clew-lines!" 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!"
"He came down on the boat with us from Milwaukee. I knowed him as soon as I seen him, but I couldn't think all the v'yage what in time I wanted to find him fer. You jest put it in my mind!" "Where is he?" I shouted. "You hain't lost him, have you?" Bill stood for quite a while chewing tobacco, and scratching his head. "Where is he?" I yelled. "Belay bellering," said Bill.
"'When you want to make her jump, he says, you press down on that with your foot, and you shove the spark back. "'Shut up! howls Jonadab. 'Belay! Don't you dast to touch that. I'm scart to death as 'tis. Here! you take this wheel. "But he wouldn't, and we went on at a good clip. For a green hand the Cap'n was leavin' a pretty straight wake.
"Who the h l are you, and what do you want off here at this no time o' night?" "Whisht!" returned Bob warningly. "Belay all that, you old sinner; there's no need to let everybody know as two friends has brought ye off a bottle of grog and a bit of queerish kind of news.
His delight at seeing True Blue as he stepped on deck was so great that he forgot to pipe "Belay," and a twenty-four pounder would have been run up to the yardarm had not his godson instinctively supplied the omission with his own pipe, though, when Harry afterwards informed him of the fact, he was not in the slightest degree aware that he had done so.
Up with her." The bo'sun, stooping, looped the fall of the tackle into the snatch- block; the men, under the Captain's eye, tumbled to and gave way, holding the weight gallantly as the rail swung down and putting their backs into the pull as she rolled back. "Up with her!" shouted the Captain, and she tore loose from her bed. "Vast hauling! Belay! Now out with the davit, men."
"Easy there!" screamed Matthews from his perch forwards, not to be outdone; while the boatswain was singing out for a "fender" to guard the ship's bows from scrunching against the dock wall, and Tom Jerrold overseeing the men at the bollard on the wharf calling out to them to "belay!" as her head swung a bit.
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