. The book of months . W^ L(Pi ^IM^i^Wi^k^^^^^ ■^- OCTOBER steady, but full of wandering creaks and groans,and clothes hanging up on my cabin walls whis-pered against the wood-work and oscillated back-ward and forward. During the night, how-ever, we began to pitch and roll in earnest, andwaking once, I heard the scream of the screwwhirling impotently out of water, and the jarof straining wood and rivets. All next day theriot of the skies and din of the seas grew greater,until, coming onto deck after dinner, one had todash at suitable moments over the open to gainhand-hold before the next lurch
. The book of months . W^ L(Pi ^IM^i^Wi^k^^^^^ ■^- OCTOBER steady, but full of wandering creaks and groans,and clothes hanging up on my cabin walls whis-pered against the wood-work and oscillated back-ward and forward. During the night, how-ever, we began to pitch and roll in earnest, andwaking once, I heard the scream of the screwwhirling impotently out of water, and the jarof straining wood and rivets. All next day theriot of the skies and din of the seas grew greater,until, coming onto deck after dinner, one had todash at suitable moments over the open to gainhand-hold before the next lurch. Eventually Ifound a corner sheltered from the wind behindthe smoking-room, and sat there with the galethundering madly above my head and yellingand thrumming in the quivering rigging. Thesky was quite clear and cloudless, and, thoughthere was no moon, the stars made a gray twi-light overhead. As the ship labored on withreeling gait the mast near above me would strikewildly right and left through a hundred stars,239.
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