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Updated: June 11, 2025
It whirled and whizzed. The line threw a fine spray into my face. Then the tip of my rod flew up with a jerk, the line slacked. We all knew what that meant. I reeled in. The line had broken above the few feet of double line which we always used next the leader. More than ever disaster loomed over me. The feeling was unshakable now.
"Stop the shooting; we're coming up to the vehicle port." "Might as well. Nobody's paying any attention to it," he said. The firing slacked off as the word was passed around the perimeter, and finally it stopped entirely. We went up into the open arched vehicle port. It was barricaded all around, and there were half a dozen machine guns set up, but not a living thing. "We're going up," I said.
It did not alter the Snark's course a tenth of a degree. We slacked the mainsail off with no more result. We set a storm trysail on the mizzen, and took in the mainsail. No change. The Snark roiled on in the trough. That beautiful bow of hers refused to come up and face the wind. Next we took in the reefed staysail. Thus, the only bit of canvas left on her was the storm trysail on the mizzen.
To Tony each new machine was a toy to be played with; in a week or two he had mastered it and grown weary of it. Thenceforth he slacked at his work and became a demoralizing influence in his department, a source of anxiety to his steady-going father, a plague to his employer, till the holiday time was done.
Simultaneously they uttered an excited exclamation, as a huge, silvery body darted to the surface, threshed the water for the fraction of a second, and then dived. "Look out!" cried Yorke. "Give him line, Red, give him line! Play him careful now, or you'll lose him!" The reel screeched, as Redmond let the fish run. Then without warning the line slacked and the rod straightened.
"That's Jeremiah," said the Kid. "The old man hasn't worked him much lately." "Good reason why," said Shine. "I wouldn't work a horse either if he bled every time he got out of a walk! There he goes!" Jeremiah went to the half pole like the wind, slacked somewhat on the upper turn, and floundered heavily into the stretch. "Bleeding, ain't he?" asked Shine.
"Aren't there?" the Captain inquired. He slacked the sheet a little, and made it fast with great deliberation. "You better not be too sure of that, cos' I know where there's plenty of 'em." "Around here?" I inquired. Captain Bannister chuckled. "No, not very near this place. In the China Sea." "Have you ever seen any of them?" "A whole junk full of 'em." "What did they do?"
About this time they shot Colonel Wright, leading the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment, and then the Federals slacked their efforts and bore to their right, and multitudes of them climbed the "Crater" and went to the rear of it and filled the gorge line and every vacant space on the North side. No serious aggressive attack was made on the Twenty-third Regiment during the rest of the day.
Pike took charge of the 'midship-house and the poop. Captain West strolled up and down, saw everything, said nothing; for it was the mate's affair. When Mr. Pike ordered the wheel hard up, he slacked off all the mizzen- yards, and followed it with a partial slacking of the main-yards, so that the after-pressures were eased.
His jaw dropped with terror at my words, and for a moment he stood speechless. Then he uttered a fearful oath and aimed a blow at me with the hammer he held, which would swiftly have put an end to my sufferings had I not at that moment been lifted from his reach by those who pulled above. In another second I had fallen on the deck as they slacked the rope.
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