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Updated: August 19, 2024
"What's that?" cried Willie, the boy, his senses sharpened by the mention of danger. "It's the wind rattlin' my boat-chains," returned Chillis, smiling at the little fellow's startled looks. "Your boat-chain!" echoed his mother, not less startled. "Was it your boat that you were fastening to the hitching-post? I thought it was your horse.
'T was the second summer Seavern's fleet was at the harbor's mouth there, and a ship of war lay anchored a mile downriver, many's the dance we had on it's deck! and Captain Seavern of late was in the house night and morn, for when he found Mary offish, he fairly lay siege to her, and my mother behind him, and there was Helmar sleeping out the nights in his dew-drenched boat at the garden's foot, or lying wakeful and rising and falling with the tide under her window, and my mother forever hearing the boat-chains clank and stir.
It was for cutting the thong by which the boat was fastened to a birch pole, the other end of which was hooked on shore. This was to save his going ashore to unhook the pole. It was well for him that boat-chains were not in use, owing to the scarcity of metal in that region. The clink of a chain would certainly have been heard.
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