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When I returned with the fresh pin, I screwed it into the shackle, clipped on the clewline, and sung out to the men to take a pull on the rope. This they did, and at the second heave the shackle came away. When it was high enough, I went up on to the t'gallant yard, and held the chain, while Williams shackled it into the spectacle.
Then he bent on the clewline afresh, and sung out to the Second Mate that we were ready to hoist away. "Yer'd better go down an' give 'em a 'aul," he said. "I'll sty an' light up ther syle." "Right ho, Williams," I said, getting into the rigging. "Don't let the ship's bogy run away with you." This remark I made in a moment of light-heartedness, such as will come to anyone aloft, at times.
It's a great nuisance, but I assure you, my dear Chester, that poor, old Clewline is positively at sea, unless he has me constantly at his right hand to " "Mr Clewline said, if you didn't come at once, Mr Markham, I was to just fetch ye," said the marine, introducing his head once more.
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