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Our captain were a strange, wild man, but once he looked a little pale when he came upo' deck after his turn-in, and saw the green-gray ice going straight up on our beam. Many on us thought as the ship were bewitched for th' captain's words; and we got to speak low, and to say our prayers o' nights, and a kind o' dull silence came into th' very air; our voices did na' rightly seem our own.
I hope it will pass off before we turn-in to-night, for it is decidedly objectionable." "Do you know, Miss Lascelles," said Lance, as he settled himself comfortably in a chair by that young lady's side, after carefully enveloping her in a soft fleecy wrap, "I have an idea in connection with that touching story you told me the other night respecting your uncle's loss of his wife and infant son."
At eight bells, nothing is said about reefing the topsails, and the watch go below, with orders to "stand by for a call." We turn-in, growling at the "old man" for not reefing the topsails when the watch was changed, but putting it off so as to call all hands, and break up a whole watch below.
"Thank-you, Jack!" said I. "Would you just see that everything's safe from him before you turn-in again. There's always a siege of Jerusalem going on in his inside. The kangaroo-dog's the hungriest subject in the animal kingdom." "Well, no," replied Jack forbearingly, as he returned to his bed; "he ain't in it with the man-o'-war hawk.
As I neared the break of the poop, I looked up and saw the dark shape of the Second Mate, leaning over the rail above me. "Who's that?" he asked. "It's Jessop, Sir," I said. "What do you want in this part of the ship?" he inquired. "I'd come aft to speak to Tammy, Sir," I replied. "You go along forrard and turn-in," he said, not altogether unkindly.
You'd better give them a call in the bosun's place, as you go." "i, i, Sir," I sung out, and hurried off. As I went, I heard him tell Tammy to go down and call the Mate. Reaching the fo'cas'le, I put my head in through the starboard doorway, and found some of the men beginning to turn-in. "It's all hands on deck, shorten sail," I sung out. I stepped inside.
All hands tally-on to the main tack, and while some are furling the jib, and hoisting the staysail, we mizen-topmen double-reef the mizen topsail and hoist it up. All being made fast "Go below, the watch!" and we turn-in to sleep out the rest of the time, which is perhaps an hour and a half.
It was our middle watch on deck, and the ship was full of the blow and hum of the wind aloft. Williams and I were the only ones about the maindeck. He was leaning over the weather pin-rail, smoking; while I was pacing up and down, between him and the fore hatch. Stubbins was on the look-out. Two bells had gone some minutes, and I was wishing to goodness that it was eight, and time to turn-in.
Jacquelin, who foresaw his own marriage in that of his mistress, had also heard the click-clack in the rue Saint-Blaise, and had opened wide the gates into the courtyard. The postilion, a friend of his, took pride in making a fine turn-in, and drew up sharply before the portico.
At eight bells, nothing is said about reefing the topsails, and the watch go below, with orders to ``stand by for a call. We turn-in, growling at the ``old man'' for not reefing the topsails when the watch was changed, but putting it off so as to call all hands, and break up a whole watch below turn-in ``all standing, and keep ourselves awake, saying there is no use in going to sleep to be waked up again.
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