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Updated: June 27, 2025
"There," said John, "you noticed the rope was doubled through that block?" Charlie nodded assent. "That gives us what we call an endless line line. O, those noisy waves! The line runs through the block, I told you, which must have got to the wreck by this time. Here, you see, one end is made fast. At the wreck the tally-board told them just where to hitch it. Now watch!
They are hitching on to the line a bigger one yet, and that will be hauled out to the schooner, and fastened above the other line. A second tally-board tells them what to do." Here John stopped to lay in a fresh stock of breath. Charlie saw that two of the men on shore had been rigging tackles to long supports planted firmly in the sand.
"Make fifty dolla' to-day," said the Italian, marking his tally-board with a piece of chalk. Richling clapped him joyfully on the shoulder, but turned around with inward distress and hurried away. He had not found work. Events followed of which we have already taken knowledge. Mary, we have seen, fell sick and was taken to the hospital. "I shall go mad!"
The pieces he thrust into his pocket in order that at the completion of the work he could thus check the Cattleman's tally-board as to the number of calves branded. The bull-dogger let go. The calf sprang up, was appropriated and smelled over by his worried mother, and the two departed into the herd to talk it over.
Another explanation was then bawled at Charlie, who now wished his eyes were ears, so anxious was he to hear. "Look at that block, and then there is what they call a tally-board, and it has some printed directions on it, telling the men on the wreck just what to do. Only watch!" he shouted. The stouter rope had now started on its journey through the waters, and was taken on board the wreck.
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