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Updated: June 13, 2025
But if we find their boat we can put ALL of 'em in a bad fix for the sheriff 'll get 'em. Quick hurry! I'll hunt the labboard side, you hunt the stabboard. You start at the raft, and " "Oh, my lordy, lordy! RAF'? Dey ain' no raf' no mo'; she done broke loose en gone I en here we is!" WELL, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
I watched it come creeping down, and when it was most abreast of where I stood I heard a man say, "Stern oars, there! heave her head to stabboard!" I heard that just as plain as if the man was by my side. There was a little gray in the sky now; so I stepped into the woods, and laid down for a nap before breakfast. THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
Pretty soon I see a black something floating on the water away off to stabboard and quartering behind us. I see he was looking at it, too. I says "What's that?" He says, sort of pettish, "Tain't nothing but an old empty bar'l." "An empty bar'l!" says I, "why," says I, "a spy-glass is a fool to your eyes. How can you tell it's an empty bar'l?" He says
But if we find their boat we can put ALL of 'em in a bad fix for the sheriff 'll get 'em. Quick hurry! I'll hunt the labboard side, you hunt the stabboard. You start at the raft, and " "Oh, my lordy, lordy! RAF'? Dey ain' no raf' no mo'; she done broke loose en gone I en here we is!" WELL, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
'But next night about half-past nine, when there was songs and high jinks going on, here she comes again, and took her old roost on the stabboard side. There warn't no more high jinks. Everybody got solemn; nobody talked; you couldn't get anybody to do anything but set around moody and look at the bar'l. It begun to cloud up again.
Two foot large, on the stabboard, two and a half scant on the labboard!" "Let her go off another point!" "Aye-aye, sir!" "Forward, men, all of you! Lively, now! Stand by to crowd her round the weather corner!" "Aye-aye, sir!"
Jim he grumbled a little, but give in. He said we mustn't talk any more than we could help, and then talk mighty low. The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there. The deck was high out here.
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. We'd GOT to find that boat now had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too seemed a week before we got to the stern. No sign of a boat. Jim said he didn't believe he could go any further so scared he hadn't hardly any strength left, he said.
Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow!" His right hand, meantime, describing stately circles for it was representing a forty-foot wheel. "Let her go back on the labboard! Ting-a-lingling! Chow-ch-chow-chow!" The left hand began to describe circles. "Stop the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Stop the labboard! Come ahead on the stabboard! Stop her! Let your outside turn over slow! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ow-ow!
Straight off I heard him sing out "Below there, ahoy! Shake her up, shake her up! Heave on a hundred million billion tons of brimstone!" "Ay-ay, sir!" "Pipe the stabboard watch! All hands on deck!" "Ay-ay, sir!" "Send two hundred thousand million men aloft to shake out royals and sky-scrapers!" "Ay-ay, sir!" "Hand the stuns'ls! Hang out every rag you've got! Clothe her from stem to rudder-post!"
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