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"Look!" he said, and pointed with a handful of shakins, right down, directly beneath us. Some of the shakins dropped from his hand, and blurred the water, momentarily, so that I could not see. Then, as the ripples cleared away, I saw what he meant. "Two of them!" he said, in a voice that was scarcely above a whisper.
"And there's another out there," and he pointed again with the handful of shakins. "There's another a little further aft," I muttered. "Where? where?" he asked. "There," I said, and pointed. "That's four," he whispered. "Four of them!" I said nothing; but continued to stare. They appeared to me to be a great way down in the sea, and quite motionless.
Down on deck, I caught the sound of running feet, and then the Second Mate's voice. He was asking what the devil was up; but I did not trouble to answer him then. I wanted all my breath to help me aloft. I knew very well that some of the gaskets were little better than old shakins; and, unless Tom got hold of something on the t'gallant yard below him, he might come down with a run any moment.
When he came back, I got him to give me a hand to roll up the mat, which was a very large one. "I'll finish stopping it," I said. "You go and put your sinnet away." "Wait a minute," he replied, and gathered up a double handful of shakins from the deck, under where I had been working. Then he ran to the side. "Here!" I said. "Don't go dumping those.
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