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Updated: June 22, 2025
During the second dog-watch, when the Dago kept the look out, he carried his pipe to the forecastle head and joined him there. Right ahead of the ship the evening sky was still stained with the afterglow of the sunset; the jib-boom swung gently athwart a heaven in whose darkening arch there was still a ghost of color.
Swish-swash the sponge-staff ran in and out he would try to steal away at dog-watch. He struck the sponge smartly on ma couzaine's muzzle, cleansing it he would have to slide into the water like a rat and swim very softly to the shore.
It was the Knitting Swede who drugged the skipper of the Sequoia, and shipped him in his own foc'sle. It was the Knitting Swede who sent the crowd of cowboys to sea in the Enterprise. It was the Knitting Swede who was the infamous hero of quite half the dog-watch yarns. It was the Knitting Swede who was oh, the very devil! And it was on this very account I was bound for the Swede's house.
"Ah, he'd be a lucky one as knowed that!" "You'll perhaps batten down your hatches till you're spoke to, my friend," cried Silver truculently to this speaker. And then, in his first gracious tones, he replied to me: "Yesterday morning, Mr. Hawkins," said he, "in the dog-watch, down came Dr. Livesey with a flag of truce. Says he, 'Cap'n Silver, you're sold out.
What is called the dog-watches occur between 4 and 8 P.M., this period being divided in the first dog-watch between 4 and 6, and the second dog-watch between 6 and 8. "Why should such peculiar times be taken, or the periods be divided up in that way?"
"It was at the end of the second dog-watch that the hands were gathered on the forecastle, preparing to make sail after a spell of bad weather. Suddenly Nilsson gave a husky shout, and rushed at Parratt, holding out the key of his chest. "'Here you, Parratt, he exclaimed, 'go below and take that accursed thing out of my chest.
Where, in that stretchy imagination the party possesses, can you find a place for the moon, which of necessity must follow in the train of annexation? he inquires seriously. "'Put it? Why, Gineral, you have been stowed away so long, keeping dog-watch over fogyism, that you don't comprehend how Uncle Sam has been transformed into a go-ahead chap to suit the times.
Sometime in the first dog-watch her boom went over and she ran her slim nose in past Cape May, heading up the Delaware with the hurrying tide, while the brig's long-boat, towing behind, swung into her wake astern.
Later on, when their injuries had been attended to and the cravings of their hunger and thirst satisfied they had neither eaten nor drunk during the previous forty-two hours Captain Vernon sent for the skipper of the rescued crew, to learn from him an account of the mishap. His story, as related to me by him during the second dog-watch, was to the following effect:
In the second dog-watch, however, the breeze became such, that at last the order was given to douse the top-gallant-sail, and clap a reef into all three top-sails.
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