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What's the use in being always on the lookout for Davy Jones? ``Stand by! says another, ``and we'll get an afternoon watch below, by this scrape''; but in this they were disappointed, for at two bells all hands were called and set to work, getting lashings upon everything on deck; and the captain talked of sending down the long top-gallant-masts; but as the sea went down toward night, and the wind hauled abeam, we left them standing, and set the studding-sails.
The fore, main and mizen top-gallant-masts make nine and the fore, main and mizen royals make just twelve. Oh, I'm never wrong in anything about a vessel, especially if she is a full-jiggered ship."
At night, after we had knocked off, and were sitting round in the forecastle, smoking and talking, and taking sailor's pleasure, we congratulated ourselves upon being in that situation in which we had wished ourselves every time we had come into San Diego. ``If we were only here for the last time, we had often said, ``with our top-gallant-masts housed and our sails unbent! and now we had our wish.
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