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Updated: May 2, 2025
"I reckon," said 'Bias, stepping forward and seizing the ladder, which he lifted as though it had been constructed of bamboo, "I han't forgot all I learnt o' reefin' off the Horn." He planted the ladder and had mounted it in a jiffy. "Now, then, what's the programme?" he demanded. "You see this rose?
Got so we had to chain the dog Snowball whenever it came on to blow, for there's a consarned lot o' reefin' down and hoistin' sail on one o' them big fo'masters. The skipper't keeps his job on a ship like the Sally S. Stern must get steamboat speed out o' her. "So, 'twas 'all hands to stations! sometimes three and four times in a watch. Owners ain't overlib'ral in matter of crew nowadays.
The old sailor looked up quickly, stopping in his progress toward a bench, whither Alice was leading him. "This is my sister," Alice said. "Oh, yes, I remember now," Jack Jepson said. "There's so much goin' on that I get a bit confused. But I can see you two look alike. Are you goin' to put me reefin' sails or scrubbin' decks?" he asked. "Neither one," Ruth said with a smile. "I told Mr.
"Do what is to be done at once, and then lie by, is the sailor's rule, deacon," rejoined the mariner. "Squalls, and gusts, and reefin', and brailin' up, and haulin' down, won't wait for the seaman's leisure. His work must be done at once, or it will not be done at all. I'm not afeard of the doctor; so let him come as soon as he pleases. Medicine can't hurt a body, if he don't take it."
That means suthin' 'fore mornin'." He lifted his hand to it. "I wouldn't trust a sky like that not without reefin' down good." He drew a breath. "Cur'us how it makes you feel right there!" he said. "I'd a'most forgot." He glanced at the moving crowd a little hostilely and drew another deep breath. "The atmosphere is fine," said the girl.
Why," she continued earnestly, "Sol's been hog-reeve in aour taown ten years runnin'; and as for selec'-man, he'll die in office. Positions of trust come jest as nat'ral to him as reefin' in a gale of wind. Him and my man tuck to one another from the first." "Then you were not townsmen always," we suggested. "No, we wa'n't," was the reply. "My man and Sol met under kinder unusual circumstances.
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