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Updated: June 14, 2025
The fellow made his way up the ratlines with extreme deliberation for, indeed, a journey aloft in such scorching heat was no joke made up the loose gasket, and was in the very act of swinging himself off the yard when, happening to be watching him, I saw him suddenly pause and stiffen into an attitude of attention as, holding on to the jackstay with one hand, he flung the other up to his forehead and peered ahead under the sharp of it.
He had thrust his cap into his pocket in order to prevent it being blown away, and his brown locks were streaming in the wind. He stood just aft the foremast, to which he had lashed himself with a gasket or small rope round his waist, to prevent his falling on the deck or being washed overboard.
The black cylinder began to smoke, and the murky cloud rolled down upon the water, half obscuring the fleet. Here and there a broad sail, freshly unfurled, hung stiffly from the yard; the canvas, escaping from its gasket fastenings, had not yet been braced round to the breeze.
The shrouds were now iced over, the sleet having formed a crust round all the standing rigging, and on the weather side of the masts and yards. When we got upon the yard, my hands were so numb that I could not have cast off the knot of the gasket if it were to save my life.
"'oo saw it?" he asked. "I saw it!" I said, a bit sharply. "So did Williams; so for that matter did the Second Mate." Plummer relapsed into silence; and smoked; and Stubbins broke out afresh. "I reckon Tom must have had a hold of the foot and the gasket, and pulled 'em hover the yard when he tumbled." "No!" interrupted Tom. "The gasket was under the sail. I couldn't even see it.
That Inez at this time should have been taken from her home, abducted, frightened or harassed, was the sin unpardonable. For it he meant to exact a capital punishment. The law, just then, meant to him nothing; only the primitive instinct of an outraged man controlled his mind. At the bar he paused. "Where's McTurpin, where's Gasket?" he demanded, harshly.
I put my left arm round the Ordinary's body getting hold of the jackstay on the other side. Then I looked up. Above us, I seemed to see something dark and indistinct, that moved rapidly up the lift. "Keep tight hold of him, while I get a gasket," I heard the Second Mate sing out. A moment later there was a crash, and the light disappeared. "Damn and set fire to the sail!" shouted the Second Mate.
The crew sat lazily about the deck some making air-nets for hats, others pointing ropes, working a mouse, or making a pudding, or a dolphin, or turning in a gasket; some leaned idly over the rail, and others slept still more idly below; while a few, not altogether unmindful of our old shipmate's instructions, were bending over their books or using their pencils.
To accomplish this object, let the pipe which it is desired to attach be put through the leaden hause, and let the space between the pipe and the lead be packed with gasket and white lead, to which a little olive oil has been added.
The spigot over the kitchen sink was leaking a little, and it occurred to her, in the same curious detached way, that it needed a new gasket. She sighed. Once more, in this silent little house so fraught with happy memories, the old burden of existence was bearing upon her the feeling that she was in jail.
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