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Updated: June 12, 2025
"When once she's married she'll go straight enough. I believe that of her, for she knows which side her bread's buttered. But till the splice is made she's a right to please herself; that's the way she looks at it." "And will it not please her to become mine?" "It's about the same with 'em all," continued Poppins.
It took us till the evening to reach the buoys, get the cable on board, test the first half, speak to Lowestoft, make the splice, and start. H had not finished his work at Norderney, so I was alone on board for Reuter.
The engine was not harmed in the least and the snapped wire that had prevented the rudder being set to make a proper landing, was easy to splice. "And, as we've got a spare wheel we can put that on and soon start back," said the lieutenant. "Say, this is getting off better than even in an automobile accident," spoke Dick, with a laugh. "I didn't know you carried spare parts."
With a small delay, for one or two improvements I had seen to be necessary last night, the engine started, and since that time I do not think there has been half an hour's stoppage. A rope to splice, a block to change, a wheel to oil, an old rusted anchor to disengage from the cable which brought it up, these have been our only obstructions.
Then the splice was completed, and by evening we were under way for Cagayan, laying cable as we went. In less than an hour after we started there was great excitement on board, even the loungers on the quarter-deck hurrying forward to hear the details of what might have been a very serious accident, due to the cable slipping on the drum.
"It's childish," I laughed later, "for him to do such things, and for me to grow angry over them, for that matter." But my heart smote me when we climbed aboard and looked at the havoc he had done. The shears were gone altogether. The guys had been slashed right and left. The throat-halyards which I had rigged were cut across through every part. And he knew I could not splice. A thought struck me.
Well, it's a pity but it can't be helped. I am fond of a drop myself, and when we get to shall be happy to offer your honour a glass of whiskey. I hope your honour and I shall splice the mainbrace together before we part." "I suppose," said I, "by your talking of splicing the mainbrace that you are a sailor." "I am, your honour, and hail from the Cove of Cork in the kingdom of Munster."
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, all contact with Europe broke off. The electricians on board decided to cut the cable before fishing it up, and by eleven o'clock that evening they had retrieved the damaged part. They repaired the joint and its splice; then the cable was resubmerged. But a few days later it snapped again and couldn't be recovered from the ocean depths.
This task the small boy, with much shame and trembling at heart, accomplished; and in due time an answer came from his mother which not only relieved his mind but paid off his debts to Oliver and Wraysford, and once for all closed the business of the treble-cane splice bat. It would have been well for Loman if he could have got out of his difficulties as easily and as satisfactorily.
"Splice my main brace," said he, with his head on one side, quaintly, "wasn't that a blasphermous yarn old Dave was givin' us about the wind blowing that log chain away a link at a time? Old son of a gun!" Beth was inquisitive. "Why do you call him a son of a gun?" Napoleon scratched his head. "Well, you see, Dave's mother held up his father with a Colt forty-five and makes him marry her.
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