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Updated: May 1, 2025
Larry was on the watch for me as I jumped out of the carriage which had been sent over to Kerry to meet me. The old seaman had expected me to come back a prodigy of learning; but was horrified to discover that I was puzzled how to make a carrick-bend, and had nearly forgotten the length of the Psyche's main-top bowline.
"There's strength and beauty together," he said. "Look how neat it is, the ends tidy along the standing part, all so neat as pie. Besides, it'd never jam. Watch how I do it, and then try it for yourself." Very soon we had both mastered the reef-knot, and had tried our hand at others the bowline, the figure of eight, the Carrick-bend, and the old swab-hitch. He was very patient with us.
Nullius, nullius, nullius. My memory is excellent, gentlemen; nominative, penna; genitive, pennæ, and so on." "Now, Sir Jarvy, since you're veering out your Latin, I should likes to know if you can tell a 'clove-hitch' from a 'carrick-bend?" "That is an extraordinary question, Galleygo, to put to an old seaman!"
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