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"Undoubtedly he had no active part in this affair." "He knows about it, though," she answered. "That would be hard to prove." Before he went, the captain proposed certain defensive improvements for the shack. She accepted them gratefully. Later, a carpenter nailed thick cleats across the warped door, and the post blacksmith put heavy lashes of iron over the eyes of the shack.
We should never get the anchor up in this sea. Come and have a look round. It's clearing now, he went on, when we were crouching low on deck, gripping cleats for safety. 'Wind's veered to nor'-west. It's been blowing a full gale, and the sea is at its worst now near high water. You'll never see worse than this.
And Wesley's crew hauled like demons on those jib sheets hauled and hauled with the vessel under way all the time hauled so hard, in fact, that with the extra purchase given them by the blocks they pulled the cleats clean out, and away went the Lucy's jib and jumbo and there was Wesley hung up.
Jacker put the growth aside carefully, and going feet first gradually disappeared. Within there in the formless darkness he stood upon a ladder made of the long stem of a sapling to which cleats were nailed. The sapling was suspended in a black abyss. The boy, with his bundle hanging from his shoulder, started down fearlessly.
"If the plan is adopted, I should like to have Peaks and Bitts with me, to act as watch officers with Cleats and Gage." "You shall have them," replied Mr. Lowington, as he directed the officer of the boat to call his crew, who had been permitted to come on board.
Both seats were filled, and a file of men were standing up, holding on to the cleats overhead. Parties with baskets and bundles were climbing up on the roof. Half-suppressed laughter rippled up from all sides. "Well, for clean, cool, out-and-out cheek, if this don't bang anything that ever I saw, I'm an Injun!" whispered Col. Jack. A Chinaman crowded his way in. "I weaken!" said Col. Jack.
"That looks all right to me," returned Joe, eyeing the outfit critically. "But we'll have to raise the panel up an inch or two so as to give room underneath for wires and connections, shan't we?" "Right you are!" exclaimed Bob. "There's another job for you, Jimmy. We'll have to have two cleats to go underneath and raise the whole business up."
It should be planed or sawed to a thickness of about a third of an inch, and should be free from knots. If a single board of the required width is not easily found, two boards may be used, and secured side by side by three cleats, one at each end and the other in the middle, using wrought nails and clinching them deeply into the board on the under side.
The lower deck in that part of the boat was entirely under water. "What are we going to do about it?" gasped Jane finally. Harriet was groping about on the deck, her head under water a good part of the time. "I've found it," she cried. "Found what?" demanded Miss McCarthy. "The cleats." "Well, what are they?" "Maybe our last hope. Climb up to the top. I'll tell you my plan."
Giddings the other, aided respectively by John and Tom, and all hands strained to hold them, but although they went out slowly, they could not be held, until at length Paul and Bob came to the rescue and managed to get the ends around cleats in the boat. However, this did not stop the devil-fish.
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