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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!"
Then a voice within whispered, "Did you not ask for deliverance?" and the boy mentally responded, "Yes, thank God, I did." But there was no occasion to signal. The vessel, a barque, was running straight towards him before a light breeze under full sail as Baldwin Burr would have said, with "stuns'ls slow and aloft." Believing that he had been observed, he ceased waving his flag of distress.
He left him at last, and went home meditating on the truth of the proverb that "a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." Under the influence of favouring breezes and bright skies the Walrus swept gaily over the ocean at the beginning of her voyage, with "stuns'ls slow and aloft, royals and sky-scrapers," according to Captain Stride.
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