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Updated: October 11, 2025
The old man recalls aloud the expenditure of the day before, and writes down in a tattered notebook where and how much he had given to guards, engine-drivers, oilers.... Meanwhile the passenger train has long ago gone off, and an engine runs backwards and forwards on the empty line, apparently without any definite object, but simply enjoying its freedom.
Then he says: 'Put me on my feet, men. A couple of oilers put him on his feet. I thought he was going to give orders to make steam, but he only wanted to be stood up so as he could curse the Germans a little better. Lying down interfered with his wind. He rolled it out in one steady stream for ten minutes.
Merry reached the grating from which he had been hurled, and then he ran up the other ladder. He was soon in the engine-room. In that room there was no excitement. The machinery was sliding and swinging in a regular manner, while the engineer sat watching its movements, talking to an assistant. Oilers and cleaners were at work. "Where is he?" cried Frank, his voice sounding clear and distinct.
First, Sam Hall and Kyle were to go down to the hole of the ship and lead the firemen in their attack upon the oilers and wipers, most of whom had not been approachable with the plan of mutiny because they were newly signed on the ship. In this part of the campaign the most important feature would be the capturing of Campbell, who would be reserved for a finely drawn-out, tortured death.
The bunch seated under the spreading banana tree aren't waiting for the ripe fruit to drop in their mouths. That's in the First Reader and maybe somewhere down among the Black and Tans " "Black and Tans?" interrupted Bob with a note of query. "Yep. Oilers greasers Mexicans hidalgos of all kinds from here to the equator," explained Baker.
As strange as it may seem brass oilers and fillers on the engine-frames were comparatively uninjured. The tank, encased in brick, contained 6,000 gallons of fuel oil, and with its contents was uninjured. The granite blocks on which the engines and drivers rested were badly scaled and cracked by the heat, and in some places entirely destroyed.
"I'll go down and see the firemen and stir them up and put some more oilers to work in the screw well, to lubricate the shaft so as to prevent the bearings from overheating." "That's your sort, my hearty," said Stoddart. "So you can return on deck, Haldane, and tell the skipper and Mr Stokes that everything shall be done down here by us to overhaul your `ghost-ship."
As his eyes closed again he added, in an almost inaudible whisper: "I was getting too close on somebody's trail." The captain looked at the ship's doctor significantly and dismissed the two oilers with instructions to return to their duties. "Found him locked in a small compartment down near the auxiliary engine room," the commander said briefly.
So when the boatswain's mate went around with his pipe, singing out as he dodged in and out among the swinging hammocks, "On deck all the port watch," each of us jumped out of his swaying bed and began to climb into his damp clothes and stiff "oilers."
"We'll go over to the fish house an' ye can put on some oilers an' save yer good clothes." On the way they met the well-remembered old lady Albert had first noticed at the prayer-meeting. I make sure the Lord's teched yer heart, an' if ye ain't a believer yet, ye will be."
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