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"Why, I beg leave to hint to you, sir, in the most delicate manner in the world," replied the boatswain, "that it must be with a double-wall and be d d to you don't you know that yet? Captain of the foretop," said he, "up on your horses, and take your stirrups up three inches." "Ay, ay, sir." "Mr Chucks," said the first lieutenant to the boatswain, "what blocks have we below not on charge?"
Accordingly the ship dodged off and on during the remaining hours of the night, and at daybreak George was called, and at once proceeded into the foretop, accompanied by Dyer, where the pair again carefully reconnoitred their surroundings.
"Why, of course they wouldn't, you scoundrel!" stormed the first-mate. "Can you reef and splice and take your turn at the wheel?" "No, sir," whimpered the man. "Can you go aloft without tumbling down and breaking somebody's head instead of your own idle neck? Could you lay out on the foretop yard?" "No, sir, but but I'd try, sir, I would indeed, if you'd let me."
However it be, I have been often put out of Countenance by the Shortness of my Face, and was formerly at great Pains in concealing it by wearing a Periwigg with an high Foretop, and letting my Beard grow.
"It's twelve o'clock, sir," said the master, touching his hat, with his quadrant in his hand. "Make it so, and pipe to dinner." Newton was stationed in the foretop. In a few days the awkwardness arising from the novelty of the scene, and from the superior dimensions of every variety of equipment on board of the frigate, compared to the small craft to which he had been accustomed, passed away.
The white ones are very large, and their down is equal to that of the swan. At last Cape Horn and its swelling seas were left behind, and we reached Valparaiso in about sixty days from Rio. We anchored in the open roadstead, and spent there about ten days, visiting all the usual places of interest, its foretop, main-top, mizzen-top, etc.
I dreamt old Bill Foster fell out o' the foretop and broke 'is leg." "Well, wot is there to laugh at in that?" ses old Bill, very sharp. "It was funny in my dream," ses the cook. "You looked so comic with your leg doubled up under you, you can't think. It would ha' made a cat laugh."
However, the matter was cleared up shortly after sunrise next morning, when Mendouca again sent a hand aloft to look round, for the fellow had only got as far as the foretop when he reported two objects that looked like the boats, about five miles to leeward; adding, that if they were the boats, they were capsized.
The western side of the island was about a mile long. Twice, by porting the helm, the little vessel escaped clear of rocks, over which the water spurted. As she approached the southern end of the isle, Bok, who had been sent into the foretop, shouted that again there was land ahead, and that the passage between was full of ice. The captain ascended the shrouds himself, halfway to the top.
He answered polite but brief, and resoomed the subject nearest and dearest. I then, with dizzy foretop and achin' ear pans, tried to turn his mind onto politics and religion, no avail.
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