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I was going to ask him some further questions concerning Ahab, when we heard a noise on deck. "Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to." And so saying he went on deck, and we followed. It was now clear sunrise.
And Schmidt would be granted another reprieve by the Powers that Were. Suddenly Blackie beckoned the nurse in the doorway. She came swiftly and bent over him. "Gimme two minutes more, that's a good nursie. There's something I want to say t' this dame. It's de rigger t' hand out last messages, ain't it?" The nurse looked at me, doubtfully. "But you're not to excite yourself."
A young Irish rigger, with a capable wife and two pretty babies, lost his job after a quarrel with his boss rigger. He was a genial, popular chap, always "the life of the party" in his circle; and his companions encouraged him to feel that he was a much injured man. They also helped him to fill his enforced leisure with too much beer.
"Time enough by-and-by, when he comes in from the fields, where they've sent the poor gentleman to work. They put me to field labour at first, but they found out that I was handy as a rigger, so they've put me to refitting some of their craft.
"If he will but stop a moment to rigger the matter out, he'll understand that only by keepin' clear of this camp can he hope to help us," the old man replied, and I asked, sharply: "Do you really believe, sergeant, that any one can aid us now?" "Tut, tut, lad; do not give yourself up for dead yet awhile. So long as there's life there's a chance.
Imagine for a moment five million tons of shipping detained, thousands of seamen reduced to want, the trades of the ship-builder, joiner, rigger, and sail-maker stopped, the masses of produce now seeking the coast for shipment arrested on their way by the entire cessation of demand, the banker and insurer idle, the commissioners of bankruptcy, the sheriff, and the jailer busy.
Marble, encouragingly, passing a ball of spun-yarn, all the while, to help a rigger serve a rope. "When did you leave the country?" This produced a general laugh, even the yellow rascal of a mulatto, who was passing into the cabin with some crockery, grinning in our faces at this salutation.
I will speak to the head-rigger myself, and tell him you want to learn your business, and are ready to do anything that he likes to set you to; and as you have been already two years at the work he will not find you a lubber." The rigger at once placed Jack at work with one of the gangs, and he worked steadily until four bells sounded, and the men knocked off.
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