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Updated: June 11, 2025
"W'en a thing comes all right, an' tight, an' ship-shape, why, wot then? In coorse it's all square that's wot I say." "She's comin' to," whispered Larry. "Ah! thin, spake, won't ye, darlin'? It'll do ye good, maybe, an' help to open yer two purty eyes."
"Oh, yes," I replied, "you will be in time to help us get things ship-shape." "Well, good-bye, Isabel; good-bye, comrades," and he was off. For some time we all worked with a will. Kosinski was set to stowing away the literature in packing-cases. Short "locked up" forms and "dissed" pie, and I busied myself over various jobs.
The latter also seemed entirely to have forgotten that we were already in soundings. "Well, sir," he said, coming up to Stanley, "I suppose we must see about getting the old man buried. I am no hand at preaching or praying, and so I will ask you to read the funeral service. We will do all things ship-shape and right."
"No, child, not just yet; but sister is, and I must go and see that is all done up ship-shape, and bring you home some wedding-cake. Ben will take care of you while I'm gone." "When shall you go?" asked Bab, beginning to long for her share of cake. "To-morrow, I guess. Celia has been packed and ready for a week.
"That's what I call real ship-shape," declared Captain Bean, viewing the result. "Got any more notions, Lank?" "Strikes me we ought to ship a mast so's we could rig a sprit-sail in case the old horse should give out, Cap'n." "We'll do it, Lank; fust rate idee!" So a mast and sprit-sail were rigged in the dory.
Sir Launcelot got up steam, he and I loaded up the kettle with unslaked lime and carbolic acid, with a touch of lactic acid added thereto, then filled the thing up with water and inserted the steam-spout under the canopy. Everything was ship-shape now, and we sat down on either side of the crib to stand our watch.
They said her decks were as white as snow, holystoned every morning, like a man-of-war's; everything on board ``ship-shape and Bristol fashion''; a fine crew, three mates, a sailmaker and carpenter, and all complete. ``They've got a man for mate of that ship, and not a bloody sheep about decks! ``A mate that knows his duty, and makes everybody do theirs, and won't be imposed upon by either captain or crew. After collecting all the information we could get on this point, we asked something about their new captain.
There's a sight more the matter with folks's p'int o' view than there is with the Lord A'mighty's world. Now, Jo, if you've got that cretur o' yourn into ship-shape, it always doos seem to me jest like a human cretur that's got the right p'int o' view, that fiddle doos, jest give it to us lively." Jo tuned up, with modest satisfaction, and two or three couples stood up to dance. Little Dr.
When the weather kept them in harbour, all such as knew any useful trade were taken off the galley to the town of Dunkirk, and there set to work under guard, some at the making of new clothes or the repairing of old ones; others at carpentry, plumbing, or shoemaking; others, again, at repairing the fortifications, and so on thus allowing room for the residue to scrub out the galley, wash down the benches and decks, and set all ship-shape and in order: of which residue Tristram was one, being versed in no trade but that of gardening, for which there seemed to be no demand.
Mulford, we'll take a reef in that mainsail; it will bring it nearer to the size of our new foresail, and seem more ship-shape and Brister fashion then I think she'll do, as the night is getting to be rather darkish." "Captain Spike," said the boatswain, who had been set to look-out for that particular change "the brig begins to feel the new tide, and sets to windward."
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