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Updated: May 14, 2025
Everything was made ready. The gun recoiled from the previous shot; swiftly it was swabbed out. A new shell was handed up; I looked it over tenderly. That was my shell! I watched the men as they placed it and saw it disappear with a jerk. Then came the swift sighting of the gun, the almost inperceptible corrections of elevation and position. They showed me my place.
As it would be rather hard work for Mrs. Golden to clean up the sticky puddle, Mrs. Brown sent Bunker Blue up from the boat dock to help. For this Mrs. Golden was very glad, as she could hardly have handled the broom and pails of water as well as Bunker did. "This is easier than cleaning out boats," declared the fish boy as he "swabbed" the floor, as he called it.
The sides painted, our attention was given to the decks. They were swabbed thoroughly, first with a damp swab, and after they were entirely dry the spar deck was covered with red shellac, this being applied with a wide varnish brush. The gun deck was then taken in hand and treated in the same way.
He swabbed up the galley under Neb's gruff direction; he fed the chickens and milked the cow.
Drew’s bay snorted, took a dance step or two to the right as if it had picked up sudden tension from the men. "What’s up?" Anse pushed back his hat, turned up a corner of his neckerchief, and swabbed the lower half of his sweating face. "Rennie’s back." Drew watched León hurry to take the buckboard reins, watched Hunt Rennie give a hand to Johnny.
After a while he brought a basin, some soap, and something that seemed to be the tail of a horse. He made up a prodigious quantity of soap-suds, deluged me with them from head to foot, without warning me to shut my eyes, and then swabbed me viciously with the horse-tail. Then he left me there, a snowy statue of lather, and went away. When I got tired of waiting I went and hunted him up.
The planks, which had not been swabbed since the mutiny, bore the print of many feet; and an empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro like a live thing in the scuppers. Suddenly the Hispaniola came right into the wind.
"It's the jolliest high-toned, upper-ten crew that ever swabbed a deck or shoveled coal. They're all ministers." "Ministers!" ejaculated Captain Horn, absolutely aghast. Then Burke told the story of the Synod. Captain Horn sank into a chair, leaned back, and laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks.
So many come with plenty of good-will, but not a particle of practical ability, and are offended because I decline their help. The boys don't want to be cried over, or have their brows 'everlastingly swabbed, as old Watkins calls it: they want to be well fed and nursed, and cheered up with creature comforts. Your nice beef-tea and cheery ways are worth oceans of tears and cart-loads of tracts."
The dim gas revealed smudged walls ornamented with dusty English sporting prints a cock fight, a fist fight, and a coach and four done in colors. A dwarf of a waiter swabbed off the wet disks made by beer glasses. "Two half and halfs," ordered the stranger. When they were brought, he shoved one towards Wilson. "Drink," he said. "Might's well." Wilson gulped down the bitter beer.
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