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On the 4th August, 1803, the two vessels, completely equipped, and carrying 134 persons, left the roadstead of Cronstadt. Flying visits were paid to Copenhagen and Falmouth, with a view to replacing some of the salt provisions bought at Hamburg, and to caulk the Nadiejeda, the seams of which had started in a violent storm encountered in the North Sea.
But one morning when she happened to come upon him suddenly, from a by-path among some pollard willows which terminated in the little shelving piece of stony ground that lay between his dwelling and the water, where he was bending over a fire he had made to caulk the old boat which was lying bottom upwards, close by, he raised his head at the sound of her footstep, and gave her Good morning.
He just let the old foundation crumble and sordid experiences caulk into and harden over the holes stinking like excrement.
The heavy portion of the task being then completed, nothing remained but to widen the opening, fit two planks for the sides and the same number of semicircular boards for the ends, make the benches, and caulk the seams. The expanding of the log thus hollowed out is a critical operation, and not always successful, many a good shell being spoiled from splitting or expanding irregularly.
I had made but few turns, when my door was abruptly thrust open, and Pigtop stalked in, fully dressed. "I can't sleep, Rattlin," said he, "and tarnation glad am I to see that you can't caulk either. A dutiful son you would be, to be snoozing here, and very likely, at this very moment, the rascal's knife is hacking at your father's weasand.
I've an idea a block and falls will do the trick. But you'd better caulk her up with lampwick and give her a coat of paint in the meantime." He went to the door with them and as they turned at the foot of the stairs and called back another "Thank you," Roy noticed something in his face which had not been there before. "I bet he's thinking of his son," said he. "Wonder how he died," said Tom.
This was soaked and wrung out to make it softer, and then thrust into the hole in our bows. "There, you must sit forward here, and plant both feet against it, my lad," said Mr Brooke. "Ay, ay, sir. Men never knows what he may come to. Fancy my toots being used to caulk a leak!" He, laughing, sat down on the forward thwart, and pressed his feet against the jacket.
Then, too, it lay none so far from high-water mark and despite its size and bulk I thought that by digging a channel I might bring water sufficient to float it, could I but make good the breakage and caulk the gaping seams. The longer I looked the more hopeful I grew and the end of it was I hasted to bring such tools as I needed and forthwith set to work.
Then in the evening he pitches in a twenty-page demi-official to me, saying that the people where he is might be "advantageously employed on relief-work," and suggesting that he put 'em to work on some broken-down old reservoir he's discovered, so as to have a good water-supply when the Rains come. He thinks he can caulk the dam in a fortnight.
"You need not sit up, Billy," he said. "If you are wanted I'll call you. Tim will tend the main halyards and keep a look-out forward." Billy, who was always ready for a caulk, lay down in the stern sheets. Tim kept himself awake by alternately singing snatches of Irish songs and whistling. Tom himself had some difficulty in keeping awake.
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