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Officers and men were all treated alike, and there was no redress, for no one among us dared to bring him to a court-martial. His constant maxim was "Keep sailors at work, and you keep the devil out of their minds all hands all day-watch, and watch all night." The officers and men, for the first three weeks, never had a watch below during the day.
When we did not keep such constant guard, we sat or lay listening of an evening to a most discordant noise caused by the singing of psalms and hymns at the same time at different farms. We sometimes joined in. As a people we are not very musical. The day-watch we liked best. Then we often got a chance of firing a shot at a careless khaki on the Rooirandjes.
Officers and men were all treated alike, and there was no redress, for no one among us dared to bring him to a court-martial. His constant maxim was "Keep sailors at work, and you keep the devil out of their minds all hands all day-watch, and watch all night." The officers and men, for the first three weeks, never had a watch below during the day.
Thus one evening at the close of our day-watch on deck, he approached Handy Solomon. It was at the end of ten days, on no one of which had the seaman failed to tinker away at his steel claw. Darrow balanced in front of him with a thin smile. "Too bad it doesn't work, my amiable pirate," said he.
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