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On the following day a favourable opportunity offering to proceed to sea, we got under way, and after having cleared the land, discharged the pilot, made sail, and performed the necessary duties of stowing the anchors, unbending and coiling away the cables, &c.
Shaik Tsin replaced him, moving noiselessly about the room, restoring the reference books to the shelves and stowing the portfolios away in a massive safe hidden behind a lacquered screen. This done, he stationed himself before his master, awaiting his attention, a shape of affable placidity, intelligent, at ease; his attitude not entirely lacking a suggestion of familiarity.
But she was a long way astern at first, and by the time that she got close up to us we were fairly outside the Hook and the tug had cast us off which made a delay in the stowing, as the men had to be called away from it to set enough sail to give us steerage way.
When they were stowing their loading, they broke a hogshead, as is always necessary, and is always done, to fill up the stowage, and to consolidate and keep the whole mass firm and in place.
"Ghosts!" scoffed Ferdinand Stowing, who was to go with Chet and Teddy. "I don't see where you girls get this ghost stuff. Just because a house happens to be old doesn't say it's haunted." "Gosh! listen to him," cried Chet indignantly. "Some one is always taking the joy out of life." "Say, you don't think it's haunted, do you?" asked Ferd, in surprise.
Taking off their belts and stowing them overhead, they got hold of their bags, exchanged their smart uniforms for old suits of clothes, and otherwise prepared themselves for the endurance of life on board a transport. To his great satisfaction, Miles found that several of the comrades for whom he had by that time acquired a special liking, were appointed to the same mess with himself.
Dodd," he remarked. "But there's one thing: it's now or never; in half an hour Archdeacon Gabriel couldn't lay her to, if he came downstairs on purpose." "All right," said I; "let's run." "Run goes," said he; and with that he fell to breakfast, and passed half an hour in stowing away pie, and devoutly wishing himself back in San Francisco.
"Trying in" is the term applied to the melting of the fat and the stowing of it away in barrels in the form of oil; and an uncommonly dirty process it is. The large "blanket-pieces" were cut into smaller portions, and put into the try-pots, which were kept in constant operation.
The next minute Mr Denning was tenderly lifted by Bob Hampton and Mr Frewen, and his legs were passed out from the window, the rope was tightened, then he swung to and fro, and a minute later Dumlow had left the catching and stowing to cast off the rope which was now left hanging, so as to afford us a ready means of retreat in case it should be necessary.
There were also several pleas to be taken along, but the mention of the five dollar assessment silenced all such requests. "All ready!" called out Joe Miller at last. "You youngsters jump on lively, for we've got a long way to go." With a glad whoop Dick & Co. piled aboard the truck, stowing themselves away as comfortably as might be. "Giddap!" grumbled Joe at the horses.
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