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But the impossible was accomplished, and somehow he was clinging at last like a limpet to the very end of the gaff, his legs already dangling over the fatal edge, and with nothing to keep him from the clutch of death beyond it but his grip of the floating spar. To this he must cling until the mocking boat should again come taut on the line and possibly run within his reach.
One of the French officers, after he was taken prisoner, axed me how we had managed to get the gun up there; but I wasn't going to blow the gaff, so I told him, as a great secret, that we got it up with a kite, upon which he opened all his eyes, and crying 'sacre bleu! walked away, believing all I said was true; but a'n't that a sail we have opened with the point, Mr Simple?"
"It is a most unfortunate piece of good fortune this that has befallen Mrs Gaff," said Mr George Stuart, "a very unfortunate thing indeed." "Dear me, do you think so? Now I don't agree with you at all, brother," observed Miss Peppy. "I think that good fortune is always good fortune, and never can be bad fortune.
Fortunately, none of the crew were hurt, and, dropping the oars, they hauled the mast alongside, cut the sail from its fastening to the hoops and gaff, and then severed the shrouds and allowed the mast to drift away, while they again settled themselves to the oars.
"By all I can learn and see, sir, they are the crew of a wrecked letter-of-marque an Indiaman of some sort or other; and finding a good occasion to get off the island, and make a rich prize, they have helped themselves to the poor Crisis God bless her! say I, though she is now under the French flag, I suppose." I looked up at the gaff, and, sure enough, there was flying the tri-color!
In addition to all these beautiful and expensive articles, Mrs Gaff displayed her love for the fine arts in the selection and purchase of four engravings in black frames with gold slips, one for each wall of the cottage. The largest of these was the portrait of a first-rate line-of-battle ship in full sail, with the yards manned, and dressed from deck to trucks with all the flags of the navy.
We've about finished anyway, I guess." His coolness matched her own. Another silence during which she painted furiously. "I'm making a sketch of Pal holding the gaff," she ventured at length when the strain had become too uncomfortable. "So I see."
"Then we'd better begin `dear sir, don't you think?" "But he an't dear to me," said Gaff. "No more is he to me," observed his wife. "Make it `sir, plain `sir' means nothin' in partickler, I b'lieve," said Gaff with animation, "so we'll begin it with plain `sir. Now, then, fire away, Tottie."
In our engraving we have several cutter-rigged yachts sailing with a light side wind, with main-sail, gaff, fore-sail, and jib set. This is the most elegant and, for small craft, the most manageable vessel that floats. Its proportions are more agreeable to the eye than those of any other species of craft, and its rig is in favour with owners of yachts, especially with those whose yachts are large.
So the talk ran on and Joe at length got up to take a look at the two men. They were Gaff Caven and Pat Malone. At once our hero drew out of sight again. "How can you get the best of Vane, Gaff?" asked Malone, after a pause. "There is but one way, Malone." "And that is?" "Can I trust you?" "Haven't you trusted me before?" "We must " Caven paused. "We won't talk about it in this public place.
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