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Updated: June 11, 2025
Peaks was as busy as a bee, and in person saw that every rope was properly coiled up or flemished, that the cable was in order to run out when needed, and in general, that everything was in ship-shape order. As good seamen, the young gentlemen understood that these careful preparations did not indicate merely a change in the holding-ground of the vessel.
Then his newly-hired successor flitted in, touched his forehead, and began to fly around here, there, and everywhere, on his velvet feet, and in five minutes he had everything in the room "ship-shape and Bristol fashion," as the sailors say, and was standing at the salute, waiting for orders. Dear me, what a rustler he was after the slumbrous way of Manuel, poor old slug!
"Now our crew is complete, John," Captain Dave said. "We have been wanting a supercargo badly." "Ay, ay, Captain Dave, there is no doubt we have been short-handed in that respect; but things have been more ship-shape lately." "That is so, John. I can make a shift to keep the vessel on her course, but when it comes to writing up the log, and keeping the reckoning, I make but a poor hand at it.
He was not much impressed with the sheet of water, large as it was, but he did take considerable interest in the coming race, and insisted on personally doing a lot of work to the boat to get her "ship-shape." So that when the Gem was ready to go to the starting line she was prepared to make the "try of her life," as Betty expressed it. There were six boats in the class that included the Gem.
Holtum certainly did not indicate anything like hostile feeling. The lanyard was laughingly untied by the Doctor, who said, as he released and shook Yaspard's hands, "I am sure you can trust your prisoner with so much liberty, Tom." "Of course," said Tom; "I didn't see the fun of roping him at all, but he would have it so, and the Mitchells said it looked more ship-shape."
"Avast there! fond as I am of salt water, I don't like this kind," cried the breezy voice of the fourth spirit, who had a tiny ship instead of a tassel on his cap, and who wiped his wet eyes with the sleeve of his rough blue cloak. "It won't take me long to spin my yarn; for things are pretty taut and ship-shape aboard our craft.
It's Walker's work, at the other side, that shames him." "One can't have Walkers on every farm," said the Squire. "No; if things go, as I think they will go, we'll pull down every stick and stone at Brumby's," Brumby's was the name of Darvell's farm, "and put it up all ship-shape. The house hasn't been touched these twenty years." Ralph said nothing.
Cheer up, brother! You'll soon be in hospital, where good food an' physic an' nursing will bring you round, may-hap, an' make you as ship-shape as ever." "It may be so, if He wills it so," returned the trooper softly; "but I have a little book called `Our Warfare, and a letter from the `Soldier's Friend' in my pocket, which has done me more good than all the hospitals and physic in Egypt can do.
I won't move the clumsy bandage, though, till we get him up, when it can be made more ship-shape. Now, Tom, you must let us put you in the potatoe-bag and haul you out of this."
An alley ran down one side of the house to the stables, now locked but later to be thrown open for the use of the farmers who begin to gather here as early as four o'clock. Nothing wrong in its appearance, everything ship-shape and yet "I shall find some strange characters here," was the Sweetwater comment with which our detective opened the door and walked into the house.
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