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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Suppose the spanners break when you're halfway over, Tom?" asked his chum. "I don't like to suppose anything of the sort. But if they do, we're going down!" "Can you get up again?" "That remains to be seen," was the non-committal reply. "Well, here goes, anyhow!"
There were great scarred marks on the deck-planking over which the cargo-derricks had been hauled. One must have fallen by the way, for the bulwark-rails were smashed and bent and the side-plates bruised. "It's the Governor," said the skipper "He's been selling her on the instalment plan." "Let's go up with spanners and shovels, and kill 'em all," shouted the crew.
Tom cast a hasty glance over the mechanism of the machine before he started to cross the stream by the additional aid of the grippers, or spanners, as he sometimes called this latest device. Along each side, in a row of sockets, were two long girders of steel, latticed like the main supports of a bridge.
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