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Then would come conjecture as to whither he might be bound, and sailor-like reflections upon his rig, qualities of sailing, and the judgment of the skipper in the selection of his course. Made their longitude by the mean of three chronometers; observation 29° 19' 57'' west; about one degree different from the longitude in which they were laid down in our chart; an error which should be corrected.
Glancing upwards, he beheld the handsome countenance of his brother Frank looking down at him with a quiet smile. He wore no helmet, for except when attending a fire the firemen wear a sailor-like blue cloth cap. "Hallo, Blazes! is that you?" cried the boy. "Just so, Willie; goin' down to Watling Street to attend drill." "A fire, lad; was it a big one?"
"Two chairs wouldn't do it," cried Hilary, who, sailor-like, was pretty ready at ideas. "Here, I know. Get a long stick; put the bread and milk down first." She placed the jug on the ground, and was about to run off. "Cover your handkerchief over them first," cried Hilary, "or I can't bear to sit and look at them."
Being forewarned of this before I went to sea, I took no ``long togs'' with me; and being dressed like the rest, in white duck trousers, blue jacket, and straw hat, which would prevent my going into better company, and showing no disposition to avoid them, I set all suspicion at rest. Our crew fell in with some who belonged to the other vessels, and, sailor-like, steered for the first grog-shop.
Massah Fullalove send you his congratulations, and the compliments of the season; and take the liberty to observe the tide am turn in twenty minutes." The good news thus quaintly announced caused an outburst of joy from Dodd, and, sailor-like, he insisted on all hands joining in a cheer. The shore re-echoed it directly.
There comes Hope now I recognize her laugh. Well, help me in this, and you will but forge another link in the long chain of favors I owe you. Good-night!" "None o' that, now! I don't keep a log-book on little kindnesses just pass 'em along down the line, say I. And don't you give up the ship, my lady! That's good sailor-like advice! Good-night to you, and good luck!"
And he commenced to shout "On board the 'Hoppergrass'!" He got us to shout the same phrase. The sailor-like way of putting it did not please Ed Mason. "Oh, I don't see any sense in shouting 'On board' of anything, when the whole trouble is that we're not on board."
And, so saying, Leslie left the cabin and, making his way up on deck, took a sailor-like look at the brilliantly star-lit sky that stretched cloudless all round the brig from zenith to horizon, as he thoughtfully filled and lit his pipe. To tell the truth, he was less easy in his mind touching Potter's condition than he had allowed Purchas to see.
With his tall, well-knit figure, and dark animated face, he seemed a man born to command, and he discussed the situation in a cool sailor-like way which showed that while appreciating the danger he had an eye for every loophole of escape. "My lads," he said, "no doubt you think I brought you into this fix, if it is a fix, and maybe some of you feel bitter against me on account of it.
That was the code of all true sailor-men the women first, then the male passengers and crew followed by the officers, beginning at the junior in rank. There could be room for no hesitancy or dispute it was just a sailor-like way of doing one's duty, in the simple faith that the recording angel would enter up the log.
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