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"B'Gawd, the Old Man's on deck!" ejaculated Lynch to his assistants. Then he bellowed aft, "Yes, sir?" "Reef t'gan's'l's, Mister!" came the command. "Eh!" blankly exclaimed Lynch. "Now, what is he up to?" But he yelled back his acknowledgment, "Reef t'gan's'ls, sir!" When the sails were clewed up, Newman and I were ordered aloft on the mizzen.
And so he smiled, and said musingly, and distinctly, to Newman, "A miss is as good as a mile, eh? But it is a long passage!" The cool insolence of it! God's truth, it chilled me, this careless confession of the deed, and threat of what the future held. "I think she'll stand it, Mister," he said. "You may as well shake out the t'gan's'l's again!"
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