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Jim thought he would read some of these same papers, and unrolled Tarpaulin's blankets to find them, when out fell a picture-case, opening as it fell. Jim was about to close it again, when he suddenly started, and exclaimed: "Millicent Botayne!" He held it under the light, and examined it closely.
The forehead an' face an' nose an' ears wuz Tarpaulin's, an' nobody else's." "Lightning's blazes!" roared the colonel, "Ha, ha, ha! why, Tarpaulin hisself came into my shanty, an' looked at the pictur', an' talked to them 'bout it! Trot out yer glassware, barkeeper got to drink to a feller that's ez cool ez all that!"
You must have another to let out the steam." "But listen first," I said. "Can you hear any one on deck?" There was perfect silence for some minutes, and then came a deep "No." "What time should you think it is?" "'Bout four bells, I should say, sir. Sun's shining down so as the tarpaulin's made the hatch hot." "Then the lubbers are all having a caulk," growled Dumlow.
When he had driven a peg into a cranny of the rock, trimmed half a dip carefully, lighted it, put it into the lantern, and hung the lantern on the peg, he fell back on his heels to study the effect, with a beaming countenance, filled all through with the essentially human joy of contrivance. 'Now, then, d'yo see what that tarpaulin's for? he inquired triumphantly of Louie.
"I'm afraid," said the gentleman of the motor-car, "my tarpaulin's a bit done for." Grubb admitted that the owner was the best judge of that. "Nothin, else I can do for you?" said the gentleman of the motor-car, it may be with a suspicion of irony. Bert was roused to action. "Look here," he said. "There's my young lady. If she ain't 'ome by ten they lock her out. See?
He said: "The men want you to put her before the sea, sir; so do I." The captain replied: "If you propose such a thing again, sir, I'll break your head as soon as I can get loose from here. Keep the men in heart." At noon the second mate came forward with a white face, saying: "The tarpaulin's gone off the after-hold, sir."
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