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"I expect he's gone forrard. Shall I go and tell him you want him?" "No, there's no need," he said. "Tie your lamp up in the rigging on the sheerpole there. Then go and get his, and shove it up on the starboard side. After that you'd better go aft and give the two 'prentices a hand in the lamp locker." "i, i, Sir," I replied, and proceeded to do as he directed.
This, I saw as I came round the house. Then I made a jump, gripped the sheerpole, and swung myself up on to the rail. And then, all at once, Tammy's blue-light went out, and there came, what seemed by contrast, pitchy darkness. I stood where I was one foot on the rail and my knee upon the sheerpole.
"Jump aloft, smartly now, Jessop, and see what's wrong!" "i, i, Sir," I said and made a run for the rigging. I felt a bit queer. Had Williams gone mad? He certainly always had been a bit funny. Or and the thought came with a jump had he seen I did not finish. Suddenly, up aloft, there sounded a frightful scream. I stopped, with my hand on the sheerpole.
On the tenth of May, at about 5 P. M., all hands were called to reef topsails, and a forecastle man, who was hurrying aloft to assist his companions on the foreyard, fell from only a few rattlings above the sheerpole upon the deck, and injured himself so severely as to cause his death early the next morning. Poor fellow!
"Just tell us what you saw." I told them, at length, and while I was doing so, the time-keeper brought up the lights and lashed one up on the sheerpole in each rigging. "Shove one under the spanker boom," the Old Man sung out, as the boy finished lashing up the other two. "Be smart now." "i, i, Sir," said the 'prentice, and hurried off.
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