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"Come along!" cried Cary to the malcontents; "we're raw longshore fellows, but we won't be outdone by any old sea-dog of them all." And setting to work himself, he was soon followed by one and another, till order and work went on well enough. "And where are we going, when the mast's up?" shouted some saucy hand from behind.
Then the smoke thickened and shut out the view; but a moment later he heard the rattling crash of the mast as it fell upon the superstructure beneath. "The whole mast's gone, boys," he shouted to his crew "both tops. Finnegan's done for."
"Mast's overboard," he cried, in a rattling voice. "Cut her loose, damn you! I'll take the helm " He, too, died. Cary and the lawyer got back to the gully and gave the order. The taking of those guns was no simple matter. It resembled child's play only in the single-mindedness and close attention which went to its accomplishment.
What's the mighty difference between holding a mast's lightning-rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasn't got any lightning-rod at all in a storm? Don't you see, you timber-head, that no harm can come to the holder of the rod, unless the mast is first struck? What are you talking about, then?
Yea, and there were roses at the mast's foot, and my fingers, as I stretched them, dabbled in mosses. While I lay there, breathing softly, as one who dreams and fears to awake, I heard her voice talking among the noises of birds and brooks, and by the scent it seemed to be in a garden; but whether it spake to me or to Ebbe I knew not, nor cared.
"A sail on the weather bow!" was shouted by the look-out at the mast's head, always the keenest sighted of the seamen on board in those days. The frigate made all sail in pursuit of the stranger, a large schooner under French colours. The chase stood into a bay defended by a fort, where she was seen to anchor with springs to her cables.
They took nearly all the clothing from the captain and mate all the cooking utensils and spare rigging unrove part of the running rigging cut the small cable broke the compasses cut the mast's coats to pieces took from the captain his watch and four boxes cigars and from the cargo three bales cochineal and six boxes cigars.
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