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I wasn't capable of swimming round as far as your rudder-chains. And, lo and behold! there was a ladder to get hold of. After I gripped it I said to myself, 'What's the good? When I saw a man's head looking over I thought I would swim away presently and leave him shouting in whatever language it was. I didn't mind being looked at. I I liked it.
Then I thought of the rudder and the iron bumpkin on it that the rudder-chains fastened to, and swam with all my strength under the quarter as it came along. But it was no good. The life-buoy hampered me in swimming, and I missed the rudder by an inch. "The ship went on and left me alone on the sea. I remember very little of it.
"But I say, sir, do you think if I was to go overboard, and then hitch myself on to the rudder-chains till I was took aboard, the doctor'd give me a dose of that same physic as he give him?" "Very likely, Tom," I said. "But you'd rather be without, wouldn't you?" He smiled. "But it was physic?" "Oh yes, sir, it was physic.
"Then he must have caught at the rudder-chains as he was swept along the side," said the captain. "Why didn't the fellow hail us, instead of letting the boats go on such a fool's errand?" "Too much scared, sir," replied Mr Reardon. "Below there! Got him in the boat?" "Got him, sir, and we can't get him," said one of the men. "He's all twissen up round the chain in a knot somehow." "What?"
Well, I came out to fight and wrestle for my immortal soul, and let it go at that!" Weeks turned away, and as he turned, slipped on the frozen deck. A lurch of the smack sent him sliding into the rudder-chains, where he lay. Once he tried to rise, and fell back. Duncan hauled himself along the bulwarks to him. "Hurt?" "Leg broke. Get me down into the cabin. Lucky there's the tell-tale.
Where were his late gallant comrades, Mr Evans and the rest? Not one remained. The capsized schooner was drifting rapidly down the stream. Jack, however, found that he was not alone; but he would gladly have dispensed with his companions. Two blacks had hung on by the rudder-chains, and now, as they climbed up, they caught sight of him. Their eyes flashed vindictively.
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