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The mast of the Psyche had shot up to its full height; the reef points of the mainsail were loose, and the gaff was crowned with its topsail; foresail and jib were full; and she was flying as if her soul thirsted within her after infinite spaces. Yet what more could she want? All around her was wave rushing upon wave, and above her blue heaven and regnant moon.
As Secretary to the Sailors' Home he frequently met me while I was going about in my capacity of honorary agent of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. Billy Gaff went to sea, and ultimately became captain of an East Indiaman, to his mother's unspeakable delight. Gaff and his wife and Tottie remained in the "Boodwar" for many years.
"They won't stand the gaff, sir," he returned. "Can you suggest a better plan?" I asked. "No, sir," he replied. "Then give them the gaff, lieutenant," I shouted back, and hung up the receiver. For twenty minutes the Coldwater bucked the great seas with her three engines.
Billy had been standing beside his father when the steamer was first observed, and naturally clung to him. Gaff put his left arm tight round the boy, and with the others prepared for a spring, believing, as did all the rest, that the sloop would be sunk at once. Not so Haco Barepoles, who went to the wheel of his little vessel, and calmly awaited the result.
Its bill penetrated his eyeball and completely ruined his sight. There are several instances on record in which game fowls have destroyed the eyes of their owners. In one case a game cock almost completed the enucleation of the eye of his handler by striking him with his gaff while preparing in a cock-pit. Moorehead explains a rare accident to an eye as follows: "Mr.
From this abode of elegance and luxury Mrs Gaff issued one forenoon in her gay cotton visiting dress and the huge bonnet with the pink bows and ribbons. Tottie accompanied her, for the two were seldom apart for any lengthened period since the time when Stephen and Billy went away.
"Supposin' you don't write how then?... Ah, well! you look sharp about it, and I'll be good for a day or two. Give you three days, if you want 'em." "I want your mother's leave...." "Leave for me to come? If she don't send it, it'll be took. Just you tell her that! Now here's my name di-rected on this envelope. You can tell me of a quiet pub where I can find a gaff, and you send me word there.
"Then you'll have to tell it to me, daddy, and begin at once," said Tottie, leaving the Bu'ster who was more entitled to his nickname on that evening than he had ever been in all his life, and sitting down beside her father on the floor. "Come, let's have fair exchange," said Gaff, pushing his wife towards Billy, who grasped his mother round her ample waist, and pulled her down upon his knee!
But I was young, strong, and active, and giving myself no time to think, I felt in the darkness for the crutch at the thick end of the gaff or yard which embraced the mizzen-mast below the top the yard, that is, which spread the top of the mizzen-spanker lowered myself down till I stood upon it, and then taking well hold with hands and knees, I began to creep softly up and along that diagonally stretched yard higher and higher till I felt that I must be over the sea.
Whereupon, like a sensible fellow, he ran the Spanish flag up to his gaff, allowed it to flutter there for a moment, and then hauled it down again in token of his surrender. Our chance encounter with the brigantine thus ended satisfactorily enough, so far as we were concerned.
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