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Updated: May 7, 2025
As Will and the boys reached the station, they saw the big door in one end of the building swinging back, and out rushed two men pulling a cart. John Fisher here came running up. "Wreck is down at Gull's P'int," he said, "so some one told me, and that agrees with the place where the signals were seen. I guess she is on the nub of the P'int, and our wreck-gun will reach her."
The lamp was inclosed so that the storm could not harm it. Charlie saw a stout reel in the cart, about which went many turns of a stout rope. Then there was the wreck-gun. There were also shovels and various apparatus. "Now, boys," shouted Captain Peters, who had charge of the station, "all hands for the P'int!"
"It's a three-masted schooner," bawled Captain Peters, "and she's where the life-boat can't reach her, but our wreck-gun will. That craft has keeled over on Deep Rock, near the very P'int itself! Get out the gun!" The men now took from the cart a small cannon, then a mass of rope, and then a rope of larger size. "Take out that life-car, too!" shouted Captain Peters.
"What is a wreck-gun?" Charlie wanted to ask, but every body seemed too busy to answer questions. "It will be morning soon," exclaimed Will. "I fancy I see a whitish streak now in the east." Charlie was not looking at the sky, but, standing on his longest toe, was trying to get a peep into that mysterious cart dragged from the station. A man now stood on the axle and lighted a lamp on a pole.
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