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From time to time Frank went up for a few minutes, lashing himself to the runner to windward. The three men at the helm were all sitting up, lashed to cleats, and sheltering themselves as far as they could by the bulwarks. Movement toward them was impossible. Beyond a wave of the hand, no communication could be held.
They found it was merely laid on the rim, cleats nailed on below preventing it from slipping off. They raised it easily and Hilliard flashed in a beam from his electric torch. The cask was empty, evidently a result of the long drought. "That'll do," Merriman breathed. "That's all we want to see. Come away." They lowered the cover and stood for a moment.
They had constructed what looked like a very shallow baby-cradle on rockers into which they poured their earth and water. By rocking the cradle violently but steadily, they spilled the mud over the sides. Cleats had been nailed in the bottom to catch the black sand. We wandered about here and there, looking with all our eyes.
Across the bottom of all this flume, at every yard or less of its length, small wooden cleats had been nailed, to form the "riffles." Into the hoses the water from the creek was turned, at the top. The men then shoveled the sand in the running stream and away it went, sluicing along the water-chute, its particles rattling down the wooden stairway noisily.
"Right over the lee bow! She has capsized!" Paul and Terrill ran to the rail, and discovered a small vessel, lying over on her beam ends. "That's a Dutch galiot!" exclaimed Cleats, who promptly recognized the craft. "That's a trick they have of turning bottom upwards." "Port!" shouted Terrill, who did not take his eye off the foresail of the Josephine for more than an instant at a time.
Hamblin, you are disgracing yourself," interposed Mr. Stoute. "The puppy!" gasped Mr. Hamblin. "He insulted me!" "Don't lower yourself in the eyes of your pupils by such undignified conduct." "Am I to be insulted by a boy?" replied Mr. Hamblin, breaking away from his associate. "Mr. Terrill, send Mr. Cleats and Mr.
My especial memory here is of many walks taken with him up Telegraph Hill, where the streets were grass-grown because no horse could climb them, and the sidewalks were provided with steps or cleats for the assistance of foot-passengers.
Dick Adams, Norwood, and Rodman were placed on deck above the trunk, and had a comfortable position. The skipper kept his feet braced against the cleats on the floor, holding on with both hands at the tiller; for in such a blow, it was no child's play to steer such a yacht. "You are gaining on her, Don John," said Mr. Norwood. "Do you think so, sir?" "I know it."
"Now I'm ready to put this superb article together," announced Roger. "How high from the ground does the seat go?" "Nail your cleats across with their top edges fifteen inches from the ground and nail the bottom of the box on to the cleats. See how these two-sided legs protect the edges of the box as well as make it decent looking?" "So they do," admitted Roger. "They aren't so bad after all."
Captain Billings was the last to abandon the ship; lingering not merely until we had descended to the boats, seven in one and nineteen as yet only in the other without him, but waiting while we settled ourselves along the thwarts; when, turning round, he put his feet on the cleats of the side ladder and came down slowly, looking up still at the old vessel, as if loth to leave her in such an extremity.
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