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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Back your main-topsail, your worship, for half a minute, and just assist a poor dismantled craft, who has been riddled in the wars. `'Tis a furious lion. Long life to your honour. `In battle so let it "'Tis a furious lion, in battle so let it; But duty appeased but duty appeased "Buy a song, young woman, to sing to your sweetheart, while you sit on his knee in the dog-watch
At two bells in the first dog-watch, the crew were mustered, the men having cleaned and shifted their rig for the occasion, while the officers appeared in full-dress, sail was shortened, and the ship hove- to.
"That night the steward went crazy, and started singing. First of all he began with the sort of songs that a sailor-man sings on the forecastle during the second dog-watch on a fine night; and from that he branched off into hymns. Then he fancied that he was at home once more, talking to his wife and the chicks, and it made my heart fairly bleed to listen to him.
Although we did not approach them near enough to learn more about them, it seemed probable that they were conveying some great mandarin or chief on affairs of state. "That man Blodgett is telling stories of one kind or another," Mr. Cledd remarked one afternoon, after watching a little group that had gathered by the forecastle-hatch during the first dog-watch.
The third-lieutenant yes, I think it was the third had mast-headed me, about the middle of the first dog-watch; most likely deservedly, for I had lately affected to give the proud and sullen answer.
If they chat at all when on deck, it is 'on the sly, and out of sight and hearing of the vigilant officers, who have eyes like the lynx, and ears as sharp as needles. At 4 P.M. commences the dog-watch that is, the ordinary watch of four hours divided into two watches of half that length; and the use of them is to shift the rotation of the night-watches.
That's one of them cursed frigates you was talking about this morning, colonel, but she's a tarnation sight smarter'n I gave any of 'em credit for being. I tell you, cap'n, if this had been the forenoon-watch instead of the first dog-watch it would have been all up with this brig. But now I don't feel quite so sorter anxious as I did.
The thanksgiving appeared an appropriate finale to the toils and dangers of the day; and after it was offered up, Snowball, William, and Lalee lay down to rest, leaving Ben Brace to attend to the steering-oar, and otherwise perform the duties of the dog-watch. The man-o'-war's-man kept watch during the long hours of the night.
The greater speed was sustained during that day until the first dog-watch, when I was disturbed in my reading by the consciousness that the ship had stopped, and that there was great agitation on deck. I looked from my window and observed the cause of the confusion, for there, ahead of us a mile or more, was one of the largest icebergs I have ever seen.
But about two bells in the first dog-watch I noticed that the sky was beginning to look a bit windy away down in the western quarter nothing to speak of, you understand, or to cause any uneasiness; but it made me take a look at the barometer, and I saw that it had dropped a trifle since eight bells; and at the same time the wind was distinctly freshening and the swell gathering weight.
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