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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Very soon they saw that he was not approaching the ship: the old sinner was just turning and turning around in the water, like a fishing-cork, dancing away all to himself, while the moonlight, first on one side, and then on the other, in light and shadow, gave a queer sort of look to his features, sometimes sad and sometimes funny.
"But, captain, tell us what really brought the old gentleman back," said one of the auditors. "Well, just think of that tight white hammock, the light weight of the shot, and the very hot weather think, too, how easily a fishing-cork is balanced in the water by a very small sinker, and lastly how confined air will buoy up anything and you have the whole secret of his coming back.
You can walk out in it where it is fifty feet deep, and your body will stick up out of it like a fishing-cork from the shoulders upward. You can sit down in it perfectly secure where it is fathoms deep. Men lie on top of it with their arms under their heads and smoking cigars. Its buoyancy is indescribable and unimaginable.
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