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Updated: August 18, 2024
I knew the hands was aboard, and arter watching 'is cabin-skylight until the light was out, I went and undressed. Then I crept back on to the jetty, and arter listening by the Peewit to make sure that they was all asleep, I went back and climbed down the ladder. It was colder than ever. The cold seemed to get into my bones, but I made up my mind to 'ave that twelve quid if I died for it.
To console himself our hero endeavoured to thrust into his mouth a quid of negro-head, which, however, suddenly grew as big as the cabin-skylight, and became as tough as gutta-percha, so that it was utterly impossible to bite off a piece; and, stranger still, when the poor sailor had by struggling got it in, it dwindled down into a point so small that he could not feel it in his mouth at all.
The firemen went to getting drunk, the priests were too sick to move or care for anything, the soldier sat quietly down on the cabin-skylight; Marston and I climbed on to the port paddle-box to look out for a sail. "The clouds had broken with the dying of the gale, and the moon shone out, lighting up the foaming sea far and wide, and showing our water-logged or sinking craft.
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