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"It's very hard," continued Smallbones, unmindful of the threat, "that that ere beast is to eat my allowance, and be allowed to half eat me too." "You forget the keel-hauling, you scarecrow." "Well, I hope I may never come up again, that's all." "Leave the cabin, sir." This order Smallbones obeyed. "Snarleyyow," said the lieutenant, "you are hungry, my poor beast."
"If you please, I did say that the dog was gone, and so he is; but I didn't say that I knew where he was no more I don't. He's runned away, and he'll be back to-morrow I'm sure he will." "Corporal Van Spitter, if the dog is not on board again by eight o'clock to-morrow morning, you will get all ready for keel-hauling this scoundrel."
"It's very hard," continued Smallbones, unmindful of the threat "that that ere beast is to eat my allowance, and be allowed to half eat me too." "You forget the keel-hauling, you scarecrow." "Well, I hope I may never come up again, that's all." "Leave the cabin, sir." This order Smallbones obeyed. "Snarleyyow," said the lieutenant, "you are hungry, my poor beast."
Dave Herriot, his head tied up in a bandage, was superintending the preparations for punishment. "Let's have the boy first," he shouted. Aboard a square-rigger, keel-hauling was practiced from the main yardarm. The victim was dragged completely under the ship's bottom, scraping over the jagged barnacles, and drawn up on the other side, more often dead than living.
To repair this damage in the ordinary way, the laborious task of unlading and keel-hauling must have been undertaken; but our noble friend, on hearing of our difficulties, put us upon an easier method of managing the business.
She was a large, clumsy ship, and with her topmasts stayed forward, and high poop-deck, looked like an old woman with a crippled back. It was now the close of Lent, and on Good Friday she had all her yards a'cock-bill, which is customary among Catholic vessels. Some also have an effigy of Judas, which the crew amuse themselves with keel-hauling and hanging by the neck from the yard-arms.
Lost two this trip a'ready on sandy bottom too an' Dad says next one he loses, sure's fishin', he'll give him the kelleg. That 'u'd break Penn's heart." "What's a 'kelleg'?" said Harvey, who had a vague idea it might be some kind of marine torture, like keel-hauling in the storybooks. "Big stone instid of an anchor.
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