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A second time he sent for me and asked if we were making any water in the engine-room. "With the two large Worthington pumps, besides the bilge injections, we could keep her afloat for hours, even with a ten-inch shell in her hull," I assured him, repeating that there was no water in the engine and boiler rooms.
The fringe for the ends is made by cutting the yarn into lengths twice as long as the desired length of the fringe that is, if the fringe is to be five inches long, cut the yarn into pieces ten inches long. Fold each ten-inch piece in two, slip the folded end through a stitch in the end of the shawl and draw the two ends of the piece through the loop thus formed and pull tight.
He mentioned that he would be detained for some days at Wei-hai-wei making arrangements for the repair of the ships each of which had been more or less damaged by the rebel fire during the fight in Prince Jerome Bay and getting a new ten-inch gun mounted in the Mai-yen's forward turret, to replace the one which had been dismounted on the same occasion.
It was Owd Bob who, when he could not drive the band of Black Faces over the narrow Razorback which led to safety, induced them to follow him across that ten-inch death-track, one by one, like children behind their mistress. It was Red Wull who was seen coming down the precipitous Saddler's How, shouldering up that grand old gentleman, King o' the Dale, whose leg was broken.
'What you might call a clean bit of work, he said, but though he tried to smile, there was something like awe in his voice. 'Yes. A ten-inch shell could hardly have done more, Ken answered. 'Poor beggars! It's rather ghastly wiping 'em out like that, but one has got to remember that that gun would have probably finished ten times the number of our chaps if they'd got it into position.
Jimmie stared, and saw out of a little clump of bushes a long black object thrust itself out, like the snout of a gigantic tapir from some prehistoric age. It was a ten-inch gun, coming back from its recoil; and Jimmie, smelling its fumes, struggled back to the road with his machine, before the monster should speak again and stifle him entirely.
One, bursting in front of a ten-inch columbiad, filled that powerful gun with mud almost to the muzzle, disabling it for the remainder of the fight. A shot from the "Essex" struck the muzzle of a great gun, ripped off a splinter of iron three feet long, and crushed a gunner to pulp. The gun was just about to be fired, and burst, killing or wounding every man of the crew.
I was so sick I could not stand; but the captain was not angry. He was very funny, for he laughed very loudly, and said: "'Put the kid to work, and if he doesn't do it, put a ten-inch hose on him! "Four of us altogether had stowed away on that ship. The other boys laughed a good deal at me because I got the easiest job of them all.
"You might know Hippy would spoil everything. We all start out, on our best behavior, to sing carols to our fairy godmother. Then at the most effective moment, when we are feeling almost inspired, he ruins the whole effect by trying to jump in the window." "He might as well try to jump through a ten-inch hoop," seconded David. "He'd be just as successful."
From the nose-root to the nucha over the head he measures 13 1/2 inches, and between upper ear-tips across and over the head 11 inches, which is so close to the eight-and ten-inch standard that he may be called mesocephalic.
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