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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Watch and watch I've stood wi' ye," she said, goin' "watch and watch, but I'm no good to see the lights nor to grip the wheel longer. The sight's gone and the strength, Matt. Watchmate, bunkmate, and shipmate I've been to ye, but ye're in smooth water now ... and no longer ye'll need me." A daughter to stand by you she'd be. All my money I'd give for one such.
We had, also, orders to strike the bells every half-hour through the night, as at sea. My watchmate was John, the Swedish sailor, and we stood from twelve to two, he walking the larboard side and I the starboard. At daylight all hands were called, and we went through the usual process of washing down, swabbing, &c., and got breakfast at eight o'clock.
The big lad's voice broke as he spoke of his lost watchmate. "An, if he was here he would want t' thank ye too for the way you've done by us. I can't say any more, Captain Schenke but we want you to take a small present from us the crew of the Hilda's gig." He held out the parcel. Only half understanding the lad's broken words, Schenke took the parcel and opened it.
"Boys, is this the way you treat a watchmate" demanded Israel reproachfully, "trying to cheer up his friends? Shame on ye, boys. Come, let's be sociable. Spin us a yarn, one of ye. Meantime, rub my back for me, another," and very confidently he leaned against his neighbor. "Lean off me, will ye?" roared his friend, shoving him away. "But who is this ere singing, leaning, yarn-spinning chap?
Sometimes earlier and sometimes later, the captain came down; when, after a good drenching in the surf, we went aboard, changed our clothes, and turned in for the night yet not for all the night, for there was the anchor watch to stand. This leads me to speak of my watchmate for nine months and, taking him all in all, the most remarkable man I have ever seen Tom Harris.
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