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In short, the solemn ceremony of escorting the travelers to the boundaries of Dogland became one long uproarious game of play! "But business is business!" the Dog-King said at last. "And I must go back to mine. I couldn't come any further," he added, consulting a dog-watch, which hung on a chain round his neck, "not even if there were a Cat insight!"
After dinner there was no phonograph. The second dog-watch was Mr. Pike's on deck. Besides, as he explained, the rolling was too severe. It would make the needle jump and scratch his beloved records. And no sleep! Another weary night of torment, and another dreary, overcast day and leaden, troubled sea. And no Miss West.
"We had better make everything as snug as possible," advised Mr. De Vere. "If it comes on to blow in the night we'll have our hands full to manage the boat." SHORTLY after midnight, Jerry who was to take the last, or dog-watch was awakened by Ned shaking him in his bunk. "What what's the matter?" asked Jerry sleepily. "You'd better get up I think.
Saturated with this, yet scoffing at it, I rolled over at the end of the second dog-watch and went to sleep. At ten minutes to twelve I was called, and at twelve I was dressed and on deck, relieving the man who had called me. On the sealing grounds, when hove to, a watch of only a single man is kept through the night, each man holding the deck for an hour.
My own energy I shall reserve for the dog-watch." "Oh, stop him, somebody," wailed Daphne. "I said dog-watch, dear, not stop-watch. Before we bivouac I will scale yon beetling mount if peradventure I may perceive one that will point us homeward. Scout Berry!" "Sir," said Berry. "You know your duties!" "I do that, sir." "Tis well.
As I reflected carefully upon the matter, looking at it in all its bearings, it seemed that the moment was opportune for me to endeavour to secure something more than the intermittent and shadowy authority that I had thus far been permitted to exercise; and accordingly, when I next visited the forecastle, for the purpose of taking a look at my patients which was near the end of the second dog-watch, that evening I bluntly directed O'Gorman's attention to the fact that we were now short-handed, and suggested that I should take command of one of the watches.
But she had a little slant, and a close-reefed foresail had been set in the first dog-watch, and she had carried it all night. The only difficulty about the Maud was her size when it blew hard and there was a heavy sea. She was too small to be at all steady on great waves, though the larger they were the better weather she made of it.
Once before it, by means of a winged- out spanker coupled with patient and careful steering, I could keep her before it. This I did, hour by hour one of my men relieving another at the wheel. As a result all fishing ceased. Margaret was holding the first dog-watch, four to six. Henry was at the wheel steering.
"Now, jintlemin," said Tim, addressing Weeks and myself after putting the innocent cause of our quarrel inside his cabin and locking the door to prevent accidents, as he shrewdly observed, "if ye're both av ye riddy an' willin', as it's goin' on for the sicond dog-watch, whin all hands are allers allowed at say to skoilark an' devart theirsilves, ye can follow me out on the fo'c's'le, me jokers, an' have y'r shindy out fairly in a friendly way."
At length it would be about the close of the second dog-watch we became conscious that the swell, which had almost entirely subsided, was gathering weight again, coming this time out from the north-west.
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