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The halyards could be heard whirring up toward the sky, while two bunches of us sagged and lifted on the deck below. Among us it was, "Now then o-ho sway away good," until topsails were flat as boards, and the schooner, hauled up, had heeled to her scuppers. "Slap the stays'l to her and up with the balloon. Half the fleet's driving to the no'the'ard. Lively." The Johnnie liked that rarely.
I could hear him stirrin' 'round up there when I was for'ard just now, and he hollered to the wheel that up to the no'the'ard it looked like planty of fish. 'And I callate we ain't the only vessel got eyes for it, he said." "Yes," said his watch-mate, who had just dropped down, "it's nothing but side-lights all 'round and " Just then came the skipper's voice from aloft.