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Updated: May 18, 2025
From the room outside this drawer was concealed by the cloth cover, and Orme had not suspected its existence. Now, the table was cheaply made. The drawer was shallow and narrow, and it was held in position, under the table, by an open framework of wood. When it was pushed in, it was stopped at the right place by two cleats; there was no solid strip to prevent its being pushed in too far.
Since the ground was deep in mud, they had gone barefoot, on the advice of Pauline Isabel, the colored girl in a neighboring shack. The cool mud squshed up between their toes and plastered their legs pleasantly. The grown folks had been given wooden hands for picking scoops with finger-like cleats!
The lead was thrown continually, but not less than three fathoms was indicated at any time. Cleats and Gage, with their sharp axes, were dealing heavy blows at the masts of the galiot, while the crew of the gig and first cutter were clearing away the standing rigging. By the time the schooner reached the position to windward of the wreck, the work had been accomplished.
"Look out inside, there!" cried a voice, and the log was dashed against the door; once twice it rose and fell on the clapboards, and under those mighty thuds grew up a wide gap through which the moonlight streamed splendidly. The horse-thief stepped between the dangling cleats and vanished. The judge, armed with the stool, stood at bay. "What next?" a voice asked.
"I wonder if the cobbler has put new cleats on my shoes?" "Somebody must have my stockings on these are too small." "What has become of my ankle brace can't seem to find it anywhere? I just laid it down here a minute ago. I think that freshman pinched my sweater."
To unaccustomed ears, the sounds on this occasion lead one to suppose the ship is going to pieces; while the cries for help from the broken-shinned, sea-sick landsmen, the bawling for cleats and lashings from the mate of the decks, the thumping of hammers, and the loud laugh of the light-hearted middies, enchanted with the uproar, make a fine concert.
The signal for those below to perform the part assigned to them was three raps on the deck, over the steerage, with the heel of the leader. But Perth was not in Cleats's watch; so he and Herman hid themselves under the top-gallant forecastle, when their watch was relieved. About three bells in the mid watch, Little informed the leader that Cleats had gone below. "Where's Bitts?" whispered Perth.
To secure this they dived with hammers and nails, and fastened a circle of cleats to catch their feet. It went slowly, this end, but in three days more they could walk around with their heads above water.
Martyn will take charge of the boat." The gig's crew were piped away, and the falls were manned. The second lieutenant stood ready at the gangway to take his place in the boat. The operation of hoisting out a boat was not so difficult and dangerous as it had been when the first cutter went off, for the sea was every moment abating its fury. "Mr. Cleats and Mr.
Leaving at supper time, Bill's eyes would sparkle as he talked over their efforts for that day, and quiet Gus would listen with nods and make remarks of appreciation now and then. "The way we've made that panel, Gus, with those end cleats doweled on and the shellacking of both sides it'll never warp. I'm proud of that and it was mostly your idea." "No, yours.
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