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I picked up hammer and nails and nailed his shoes and sea-boots securely to the middle of his cabin floor. Under his pillow I found a full flask of brandy. I emptied half ... when I replaced it, it was full again. But I had not resorted to the brandy cask to fill it. The apprehension that I might be come upon flagrante delictu gave me a shiver of apprehension. But it was a pleasurable shiver.
His chest could not be got up from below, and though I borrowed an old bread-bag from the steward, it was not half big enough, and his sea-boots and things his mother had given him to keep him dry and cover his bed not oilskins, like ours. 'Mackintoshes, I suggested. 'Yes, that's the name they were all lost. It did seem a pity.
They were in jerseys and sea-boots, marching four deep, and carrying nothing in their brawny hands. One stalwart fellow walked firmly at the head of them.. It was Pete. Philip could support the strain no longer. He got out of the carriage. The Clerk of the Rolls got out also, and followed him as he walked with wavering, irregular steps.
One gets inured to noise at sea, but to this day it passes me how even I could have slept an instant in the abnormal din which I now heard raging above my head. Sea-boots stamped; bare feet pattered; men bawled; women shrieked; shouts of terror drowned the roar of command. "Have we long to last?" I asked, as I leaped for my clothes. "Long enough for you to dress comfortably. Steady, old man!
It was a singular sight which met his eyes as he entered the sitting-room of the Admiral. A great sea chest stood open in the center, and all round upon the carpet were little piles of jerseys, oil-skins, books, sextant boxes, instruments, and sea-boots.
Groups of noisy seamen passed us with a great clop-clopping of sea-boots, and many little thatch houses we hurried by, until we came to the Quay Inn, where there were many people gathered, and pushed ourselves through drunken, quarrelling sailors to the counter. Forage. Through the throng of bearded sailors we strode and made our way to the kitchen of the Quay Inn.
Their walk is a waddle, and they bulge with seaming corpulency. This is due to the amount of clothing they have on. I noticed Larry, to- day, had on two vests, two coats, and an overcoat, with his oilskin outside of that. They are elephantine in their gait for, in addition to everything else, they have wrapped their feet, outside their sea-boots, with gunny sacking.
"The fishing lugger Water Nymph, of Looe, was seven or eight miles east-south-east of the 'Eddystone, on the night of the 16th December, 1884, when a boy named Hoskings fell overheard, and was soon about eighty feet astern. The captain of the boat, Alfred Collins, immediately jumped in to the rescue, carrying the end of a rope with him; he was clothed in oilskins and sea-boots.
Some influence in the air the same influence, probably, that caused the steward to bring without orders the Captain's sea-boots and oilskin coat up to the chart-room had as it were guided his hand to the shelf; and without taking the time to sit down he had waded with a conscious effort into the terminology of the subject.
He seemed to be much in the same condition as the skipper, for he answered and passed the word forward to the fellows on the fore. "In a few minutes things began raining down onto the deck blocks, bulls'-eyes, and sea-boots. The bombardment raised a commotion, though none of the brutes was hit. "Yet the sick and sore lion responded to the extent of bounding aft and mounting the poop.
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