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Updated: June 18, 2025
Many people have had a similar experience in times of danger, but it was very noticeable standing on the Titanic's deck. I remember observing it particularly while tying on a lifebelt for a man on the deck. It is fortunate that it should be so: to be able to survey such a scene dispassionately is a wonderful aid inn the destruction of the fear that go with it.
Permitted, a ship's lifebelt was a subterfuge of the cowardly, white-livered skunks who were afraid of a little water; forbidden, a ship's lifebelt took on the qualities of enemy's property to be reconnoitred, assaulted, captured and turned to personal advantage.
"All right," cried the doctor, rushing from the room and leaving his lifebelt behind him. Barry caught up the lifebelt and followed. "Your lifebelt, doc," he said, as they passed up the companion way. "Oh, I'm a peach of a soldier," said the doctor, struggling into his lifebelt, and swearing deeply the while. "Stop swearing, doc! It's a waste of energy." "Oh, go to hell!"
The lifeboats, fast as they went, were just too late, and found nothing but a nameless boat, bottom upwards, and a lifebelt, and no one ever knew her nationality or name. She had struck the Goodwins, and had been probably burst open by the shock, and then, dragged by the great offtide to the east, had rolled into the deep water outside the Goodwins and close to its dreadful edge. What a sermon!
In case you don't know, a topi is a sun-hat, a white thing, large and saucer-like, lined with green, with cork about it somewhere, rather suggestive of a lifebelt; horribly unbecoming but quite necessary. A very polite man bowed us inside, and we proceeded on our quixotic search for a topi not entirely hideous.
No one must guess what lay at the root of her present suffering not even comfortable devoted Mary, nor that invaluable lifebelt, Dr. McCabe. She held the honour of both those conflicting interchangeable personalities in her hands; and, whether she were strong enough to adjust their differences or not, she must in no wise betray either of them.
"Because I can't size him up," the captain declared. "There isn't a soul on board who isn't laughing at him and saying what a sissy he is. They say he has smuggled an extra lifebelt into his cabin, and spends half his time being seasick and the other half looking out for submarines." "That's the sort of fellow he seems to me, anyway," the purser observed.
The four young imps stood panicky. They looked as innocent as choir boys. The cat, eating her kipper, wheezed. "Please, sir," said the Captain's boy solicitously, "Peter has something in his throat." "Perhaps it's a ship's lifebelt," said the Captain grimly, and caught the Chief's eye.
Then, one night, some of the men took as many passengers' lifebelts and went in. The immediate result was fun combined with safety; the secondary result was placards over the ship and the dock, forbidding the use of the ship's lifebelts by the crew. From that moment the Red Un was possessed for the river and a lifebelt. So were the other three. The signs were responsible.
That very night, then, four small bodies, each naked save for a lifebelt, barrelshaped and extending from breast almost to knee, slipped over the side of the ship with awkward splashes and proceeded to disport themselves in the river. Scolding tugs sent waves for them to ride; ferries crawled like gigantic bugs with a hundred staring eyes.
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