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Delighted that the old lady had got through her enumeration of the spars with so much success, Rose cried, in the exuberance of her spirits "Well, aunty, for my part, I find a half-jigger vessel, so very, very beautiful, that I do not know how I should behave were I to go on board a full-jigger."
Mulford for you sail in only a half-jigger; but Capt. Budd always sailed in a full-jigger and his full-jiggered ship had just twelve masts, and, to prove it to you, I'll give you the names first then, there were the fore, main, and mizen masts "
Oh, ships, and brigs, and schooners, full-jigger or half-jigger, for pulmonary complaints, say I! My poor Mr. Budd always maintained that the ocean was the cure for all diseases, and I determined that to sea you should go, the moment I became alarmed for your health."
"Rosy, you amaze me!" exclaimed the aunt "and you a ship-master's niece, and a ship-master's daughter! A catch is a trick that sailors have, when they quiz landsmen." "Yes, Madam Budd, yes; we have them sort of catches, too; but I now mean the vessel with a peculiar rig, which we call a ketch, you know." "Is it the full-jigger, or the half-jigger sort, that you mean?"
"I am not surprised you are astonished at the sight of the vessel, Rosy," observed the self-complacent aunt at one of her niece's exclamations of admiration. "A vessel is a very wonderful thing, and we are told what extr'orny beings they are that `go down to the sea in ships. But you are to know this is not a ship at all, but only a half-jigger rigged, which is altogether a different thing."
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