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As Alleyne stooped to raise him, the air seemed to be alive with the sharp zip-zip of the bolts, and he could hear them pattering on the deck like apples at a tree-shaking. "Raise two more mantlets by the poop-lanthorn," said Sir Nigel quietly. "And another man to the tiller," cried the master-shipman. "Keep them in play, Aylward, with ten of your men," the knight continued.
We shall remember how even Virgil had to write: 'Hos ego versiculos scripsi: tulit alter honores! And the veriest bumpkin knows the force of the adage about one's shaking the tree, for another to gather up the fruit. But Virgil was patient, and did well at the last; though the chronicles do not tell us how many pears ever came to the teeth of him that did the tree-shaking.
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