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And then having at last finally broached the subject which had been for so long a secret source of mental disquiet to me, I fully detailed to the first luff all those suspicious circumstances trifling in themselves but important when regarded collectively which I have already confided to the reader.
Frank, they will run us down!" shouted Will, while the other continued to blow his horn with renewed vim, and the advancing gulf sponger came plunging straight toward the anchored Jessamine! It was a thrilling moment for the four chums. "Keep off, there!" shouted Bluff. "Luff her, you!" howled Jerry. "Too-oo-t! too-oo-t!"
At last one of them shouted out, `Luff, luff. The captain on this, ordered the helm to be put down, but before the frigate came head to wind, she grounded. The breeze, however, was light, and the water perfectly smooth, and the sails were clewed up and handed. While this was being done, we saw a boat pull away from the brig, towards the town.
Trysail buy it in London, and swear' this is not the paper I let your boy, Mr. Luff, stow away the last entry of tobacco for me, and the young dog has disturbed every document I own. This is the way the government accounts get jammed, when Parliament wants to overhaul them. But I suppose young blood will have its run!
"Lord help us, we shall never weather that foaming reef there set the spanker haul out haul down the foretopmast staysail so, mind your luff, my man." The frigate now began to fire right and left, and the hissing of the shot overhead was a fearful augury of what was to take place; so sudden was the accident, that they had not had time to draw the round shot.
And they both held. I could have kissed their rough, cold iron palms in gratitude if they had not been buried in slimy mud under ten fathoms of water. Ultimately they brought us up with the jibboom of a Dutch brig poking through our spanker nothing worse. And a miss is as good as a mile. But not in art. Afterwards the master said to me in a shy mumble, "She wouldn't luff up in time, somehow.
Well, again! in this book, Ingham, who had been reading it all day, had put five or six newspaper-marks. The first was at this entry, "A new boy came into the mess. They said he was a French boy, but the first luff says he is the Capptain's own nef-few." Two pages on, "The French boy fought Wimple and beat him. They fought seeventeen rounds." Farther yet, "Toney is offe on leave.
"Luff, luff a little steady!" roared the captain, who saw the summit of the wave toppling over the stern, and who fully appreciated the danger of being "pooped," which means having a wave launched upon the quarterdeck. "Steady it is," replied the steersman. "Look out!" shouted the captain and several of the men, simultaneously.
"Aye, aye, sir," replied the lieutenant, as heartily as if he had just been told he was made `first luff' of the flagship for, though sleepy sometimes when on watch of a night, he was a plucky little chap, with a lot of go in him; and then, as our painter was sent adrift and the slack hauled in by the bowmen, he sang out to us, "Oars! Off we go, my lads!"
The officer on duty, in his turn, roaring out these words, starboard, larboard, hoist, luff, tack, which the helmsman repeated in the same tone. All this hubbub, however, produced its effect; the yards were turned on their pivots, the sails set, the cordage tightened, and the unfortunate sea-boys having received their lesson descended to the deck.
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