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"What does she look like?" roared the captain. "A big ship, sir, I think," replied the lookout: "but I can only just make out the top of her main t-gallan' s'l." Gradually, one by one, the white sails of the stranger rose up like cloudlets out of the sea, and our hearts beat high with hope and expectation as we beheld the towering canvas of a full-rigged ship rise slowly into view.
Here the mate's voice interrupted him gruffly with "Shake out a reef in that top-gall'n s'l; look alive, lads!" Larry and his comrades sprang to obey. When they returned to their former place in the bow, the captain had left it, so that the cook's "pecooliar spekilations" were not at that time made known.
But there's a mighty fine cure for all that. Aye, 'tis a bracin', healthful cure." "Tell me, Mr. Bludson. You know I might get seasick, too." "Ye be bound to. Then cap'n 'e'll say lay forrid there and trice up that fo'topmast stays'l brace; and there you is first 'e know fifty feet above the fo' s'l boom, a takin' a good look of an hour or so at old Neptune.
"What does she look like?" roared the captain. "A big ship, sir, I think," replied the look-out, "but I can only just make out the top of her main t-gallan' s'l." Gradually, one by one, the white sails of the stranger rose up like cloudlets out of the sea, and our hearts beat high with hope and expectation as we beheld the towering canvas of a full-rigged ship rise slowly into view.
Captain Gordon, who was the admiral's flag captain, spoke to him about the poor watermen and bumboat women being robbed of their money by our starting so suddenly; but he could get no satisfaction from old Charley. `Bumboat women be hanged! was all he said. `Let 'em take their payment out of the fore tops'l, and the main topgallant s'l shall be witness to the bargain! With that, he orders the men, who were muttering to be piped down."
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