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Updated: June 18, 2025
The sails were discarded for steam. Better living quarters were established, but more people were forced to go down into the stoke-hole, and while the work was safe and fairly remunerative, they did not like it as well as their old and more dangerous job in the rigging. Finally, and almost imperceptibly, the old wooden square-rigger had been transformed into a modern ocean liner.
It it may not be the coolest place on earth, in this latitude, but it sure beats the stoke-hole!" And it was in this way, thirty minutes later, that Blake became a greaser in the engine-room of the Trunella. Already, far above him, he could hear the rattle and shriek of winch-engines and the far-off muffled roar of the whistle, rumbling its triumph of returning life.
Azuma-zi had come, clad in white but insufficient raiment, out of the stoke-hole of the Lord Clive, from the Straits Settlements, and beyond, into London.
In the steerage the sight was so horrible to behold, with men, women and children of all nationalities huddled and tossed in thick, dark heaps, that even a cat-shark, which had made its way through the chimney of the stoke-hole and then through the engine, did not feel sufficiently courageous or hungry to mingle in the gathering. Noli turbare circulos meos, these people, too, seemed to be saying.
"This evenin' when I came home from the store I see somethin' was extry wrong soon's I struck the settin' room. Emeline was there, and Bennie D., and I give you my word, I felt like turnin' up my coat collar, 'twas so frosty. 'Twas hotter'n a steamer's stoke-hole outside, but that room was forty below zero.
But I say, let's see if they'd go at a bait." "How?" I cried. "Stop a moment, and I'll show you," he said; and running to where one of the firemen was having a quiet pipe on deck, I saw Tom accost him, and then go down into the stoke-hole, to come up again directly with a big lump of slaty coal, bearing which he joined me.
It would not have mattered; he knew she was of the stoke-hole she had told him so and not like the accomplished girls whom he usually met who could not have got him the explosive! She dropped her stocking to take the wide-necked bottle in her hands, deciding now how best to send it.
One of them I think he was the same man that cut us free from the pulley ropes told us how he was at work in the stoke-hole, and in anticipation of going off duty in quarter of an hour, thus confirming the time of the collision as 11.45, had near him a pan of soup keeping hot on some part of the machinery; suddenly the whole side of the compartment came in, and the water rushed him off his feet.
The Chief says that, and I think he's right!" A vague foreboding filled Blake's soul. He had imagined that the ignominy and agony of physical labor was a thing of the past with him. And he was still sore in every sinew and muscle of his huge body. "You don't mean stoke-hole work?" he demanded. The fourth engineer continued to look worried.
Redmond watched the sombre profile "as I was saying . . . I 'muckered'. . . . Since then, with the years, I guess I've been climbing down the ladder of illusions till I'm right in the stoke-hole, and Old Nick seems to grin and whisper: 'As you were! my cashiered Sub. As you were! every time I chuck a brace and try to climb up again.
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