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The men were stamping aft, and the topsail-yards travelling up to the mast-head very fast, when they were stopped by a sudden check with the fore-topsail haulyards. "What's the matter?" said the first lieutenant, calling to me, who was at my station on the forecastle. "Something foul of the topsail-tie," I replied. "What's the matter forward?" said the captain.
"Topsail-tie is foul, my lord," answered the first lieutenant. "D n the topsail-tie! cut it away. Out knife there, aloft! I will have the topsail hoisted; cut away the topsail-tie." For the information of my land readers, I should observe that the topsail-tie was the very rope which was at that moment suspending the yard aloft.
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