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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Clear away stu'ns'l gear!" These successive orders were now jerked out in rapid rotation by Mr Bitpin, who stood at the poop-rail bellowing away like a wild bull, Captain Farmer remaining alongside him and surveying with critical eye all that was done as the hands scrambled up the rigging and bustled about the deck, casting off ropes and getting the booms prepared; until, anon, the captains of the fore and maintops and the captain of the forecastle, as well as the gunner's mate, whose task it was to see to the main topmast studding sail, reported "All ready!"
Thus incited, pulled at moreover from above and boosted from below, Aunt Maria mounted ladder after ladder until she stood on the roof of the Casa Grande. "If I ever go down again, I shall have to drop," she gasped. "I never expected when I came on this journey to be a sailor and climb maintops." "Lieutenant Thurstane is waving his hand to us," said Clara, with a smile like sunlight.
"'There he is! cried Willis, interrupting himself, and staring into the air. "Who?" inquired Jack "Phil Doolan?" "No Bill Stubbs, late of the Nelson." "Where?" "That squat, broad-shouldered man there, bracing the maintops." "Yes, now that you point him out, I think I have seen him before," said Fritz. "Holloa, Bill," cried Jack. "You see," said Willis, "he turned his head."
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