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Updated: May 1, 2025
He found Joel seated in the window, propped up with half a dozen crimson pillows, attempting to sketch the view across the yard to send home to his sister. West was splicing a golf shaft and whistling blithely over the task. "Hello, Sophy," cried that youth, "have you come to initiate us into the Sacred Order of Hullabalooloo? Dump those books off the chair and be seated.
"Comes as near the blackfellow as it's possible for a white man to get. And you couldn't kill him with an axe. Then start him at any civilised work such as splicing a loop on a wool rope, or making a yoke, or wedging a loose box in a wheel and he has the best hands in the country.
Any elaborate splicing operations were out of the question, so we agreed that we must bore a hole in the centre of the head.
But it was the seamanship instruction that I went in for with the greatest zest; and, from knotting and splicing up to compass, and helm, and signalling, I don't think I fell far short of what Captain Mordaunt said when he persuaded father to let me go to sea and join the training- ship that I was a born sailor and a regular `chip of the old block.
I should only have to split off three thin pieces, and by splicing their ends together, I should get a stick of length sufficient. I did so. Fortunately, the deal was cut nicely with the grain of the wood; and in splitting it, I guided the blade of my knife so as not to let it run out at the edges.
I soon managed to get hold of a piece of rope, which had lashed up one of the boy's boxes, and began to initiate several who wished to learn into the mysteries of knotting and splicing. Before long a carpenter came to do some work, and I got him to make me a pair of stilts. Several of the bigger boys ordered others. I would not use mine till the rest came home.
"Want to send us ashore among the breakers again?" growled Fillot. "Nay, my lad, nay. There's something wrong in my head, and it wants fishing or splicing, sir. It won't go. Them blacks has got in it somehow, and I can't get 'em out." "Go below and lie down, Dance," said Mark, gently. "You'll be better after a good long sleep." "Sleep, sir? No, I can't sleep. Who's to take my trick at the wheel?
Take another dash.” “No, thank you,” said I; “no more splicing, or I shall get hazy, and not be able to keep the first watch.” “That rum,” said he, “is old pineapple, and like mother’s milk, and will not hurt a child. Now,” said he, “we are talking of rum, I’ll tell you an odd story that happened to me in the last ship I belonged to.
If the rope is small a stick is often put in the upper part to strengthen it or the tip maybe finished with a small eye. Splicing is, in many cases, more useful and better than tying or bending ropes together and a good splice always looks neater and more ship-shape than a knot, no matter how well-made it may be.
Again ready Gloomy weather A Norther The Arcas The second Christmas at sea The war Plymouth rock leaven On the lonely island "Splicing the main-brace" Searching for shells Tired of hard service In irons Well disciplined A phenomenon The new year In memoriam To sea again.
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