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"Better take in the to'garns'l, hadn't we, sir?" he continued, cocking his eye aloft to where in the dim light the spar could be faintly seen whipping and buckling like a fishing rod at every mad plunge and heave of the sorely-overdriven little vessel.
Ten minutes later I was again on deck. "I was just thinkin', sir, of takin' in the to'garns'l," remarked Simpson as I joined him on the weather side of our tiny quarter-deck, where he was engaged in a futile endeavour to avoid the heavy showers of spray that were now flying over our weather bow and as far aft as the mainmast.
"She's got a good deal more than she can comfortably carry, and there's nothin' to be gained by whippin' the sticks out of her. I believe she'd travel quite as fast, and a good deal easier, if that to'garns'l was stowed, sir." "Any sign of the chase yet, Mr Simpson?" said I. "No, sir, not when I looked last, there wasn't," answered the carpenter.
"Well," I demanded, "what have you Englishmen to say to such a proposal?" "Oh, as to that," said Enderby, "me and Chips is dead against it. We knows as it wouldn't work at all. Fancy me sayin': `Svorenssen, nip up aloft and stow that there to'garns'l! and him turnin' round and sayin': `If you wants the to'garns'l stowed, nip up and stow it yourself! Oh no; it wouldn't never do."
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