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Updated: June 26, 2025
Clap a stopper on thy cable and bring thyself up, my lad what a deal of stuff thou has pumped up concerning bursting and starting, and pulling ships; Laud have mercy upon us! look ye here, brother look ye here mind these poor crippled joints; two fingers on the starboard, and three on the larboard hand; crooked, d'ye see, like the knees of a bilander.
"All very fine for you to talk," grumbled the man of the bilander to the master of the ketch; "but the bad luck is saddled upon me this voyage. You two get the gilgoes, and I the bilboes!" "Brown, none of that!" Captain Lyth said, quietly, but with a look which the other understood; "you are not such a fool as you pretend to be.
"I'm thinking that your notion is a very good one, captain," said the master of the bilander, Brown, a dry old hand from Grimsby. "Capital, capital; there never was a better," the master of the ketch chimed in, "Nettlebones and Carroway they will knock their heads together!"
"Lord, have mercy! She could run us all down if she tried!" exclaimed Commander Nettlebones; "and what are my pop-guns against such beam?" For a while the bilander seemed to mean to try it, for she carried on toward the central cruiser as if she had not seen one of them.
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