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I'm going to put Matt Peasley aboard the Quickstep as second mate, and let Nature take its course." "I wouldn't do that if I were you, sir," Mr. Skinner advised. "That rowdy Peasley and a man like Kjellin will not get along together for one voyage; then Kjellin will fire him, and first thing you know you'll be groping around in the dark again."
"You mean he didn't have the courage to put the name on the passenger list and write D. H. after it. However, please do not compare me with Captain Kjellin." "Well, you're not making the time he made in the Quickstep." "I know it, sir. My policy is to make haste slowly. Kjellin hurried and see what happened to him. He'll never be fast again, either, with that short leg of his."
You see, Skinner, this skookum skipper of yours didn't realize that with two slingloads of shingles a minute dropping into the ship he had to have a man on the job to watch the loading and do nothing else; and because he didn't realize the error of his way, Skinner, he and Matt Peasley have pulled off that little skin-glove contest, and now Kjellin looks like a barrel of cement that's been dropped out the window of a six-story building.
Damn it, sir, he's a Yankee skipper, and when you've said that you're through. I guess I know. How much have we been paying that bully Kjellin?" "Two hundred a month." "Too much! Pay Matt two-twenty-five and attend to the certificate of change of masters." When Mr.
"You got the wrong pig by the ear that time." "My leg ban broken," Kjellin whimpered. "I wish it was your neck," Matt replied with feeling, and bent over to examine his fallen foe. When he grasped Kjellin by the right shoulder, however, the Finn screamed with pain, so Matt called the steward, and together they lifted him and carried him to his berth.
Furnaces of an altogether different type are those employing an alternating current, such as the Kjellin and Rochling furnaces, where the metal to be heated really forms the secondary circuit of a large and novel form of transformer which in principle is analogous to the familiar transformer seen to step down the potential of alternating current as for house lighting.
Captain Kjellin, coming up on the bridge during Matt's watch, found the latter doing the most unseamanlike thing imaginable. Caught in a paroxysm at the weather end of the bridge, Matt, in his agony, was patronizing the weather rail! The captain heard him squawk, and ducked to avoid what instinct told him the gale would bring him his way. "Vat you ban tankin' of?" he roared furiously.
"I'll bet a cooky you're a total loss and no accident insurance," Matt soliloquized. "You're not worth it, but for the sake of the owners I'll get a doctor to look you over," and he went ashore at once. When the doctor had looked Thorwald Kjellin over his verdict was a broken tibia, a broken radius and a broken clavicle. Matt was concerned.
As he straightened up the captain's powerful left forearm came round Matt's left shoulder and under his chin, tilting his head backward, while the Finn's left knee ground into the small of his back. He was held as in a vise, helpless, and Kjellin spoke: "Ven I get fresh young faler like you, an' he quit me cold, I lick him after I pay him off." "I see," Matt replied calmly.
"Neither will Kjellin," Skinner declared with equal warmth. "Well, I don't know whether he will or not. However, that's beside the question. Where is the Florence Ricks?" "Sailed from San Pedro at noon yesterday." "Where is the Quickstep?" "Sailed from Eureka to load shingles last night." "Good. Wireless the master of the Florence to provide himself with a new second mate.
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