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Clark' that were the second mate 'and don't let it shake; keep it good full and give her away; lay the crochick yard square, and come up to the main-braces, all of you. And so, gently, as if she'd been a sick child, he coaxed her to go off, and she begin to gather way.
We follers along arter him, goin' two feet to his one, still carryin' all three royals, with hands at halliards and clewlines. Just afore we gits to him the old man sings out, 'Clew up the royals, haul down the flyin' jib, haul up the crochick and mainsail. By this time we was well under the land and in smooth water.
Afore I got the leather sewed on I be to look out for myself, 'cause they was goin' to clew up the sail, and from that time on it breezed on from the sou'ard, keepin' us constantly takin' the sail off of her, till at four bells we was under double-reefed topsails and reefed courses, with jib, crochick, and spanker stowed.
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