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Updated: May 3, 2025
His bound if it could be so-called was very successful, for the next moment he was balanced upon his chest across the gunwale, gripping at the edge of the fore-locker, with his legs sticking out behind, and exulting over the sensation of the boat dancing under him, when he felt himself seized by one of the press-gang party, who had dashed in after the boat and made a grab at the first thing that offered in the dark.
"There, gentlemen," said the skipper, "I think that's about as near as we can get it; but I don't see no sign of your Spanish guide as yet. It seems to me as if every one yonder is asleep. Here, you, Joe Cross, I knowed there'd be something. You've forgotten that screwdriver and the little bottle of oil." "That I aren't, sir! They're in the fore-locker in the little bag of tools."
"So you shall, my lad," said the sailor, who had stumped forward to the fore-locker to get out a big sponge; and he was rolling up his sleeves over a pair of big, brown, muscular arms ornamented with blue mermaids, initials, a ship in full sail, and a pair of crossed cutlasses surmounted by a crown, as Aleck stepped lightly upon the gunwale, sprang thence on to the steps, and went up, to run the gauntlet of the little crowd of boys, who greeted him with something like a tempest of hoots and jeers.
No; where's that there extra coil of new signal line?" "Starn locker, sir," said Joe. "And an extra line with new grapnel?" "Fore-locker, sir," said Joe. The captain grunted. "Here, get the grapnel out of the jolly-boat and lash it under one of the thwarts. You might lose one again." "There it is, sir," said Joe "lashed just amidships out of the way."
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