. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. ir. Very well,enter : One-inch elm boarding—feet, two hundred andfifty. Expended in repairing the maintopsail, split offCape Horn ; see ships log, May the—whatever it was,19th I think. And the powder you can expend in salutingthe king,said he,turning towards me and laughing. Mindyou cross your ts and dot your is, he continued, orthe people at the Admiralty will be down on you like ahundred of bricks ; but Ill wager my pay for the com-mission, that theyll swallow the galley funnel and themaintopsail.
. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. ir. Very well,enter : One-inch elm boarding—feet, two hundred andfifty. Expended in repairing the maintopsail, split offCape Horn ; see ships log, May the—whatever it was,19th I think. And the powder you can expend in salutingthe king,said he,turning towards me and laughing. Mindyou cross your ts and dot your is, he continued, orthe people at the Admiralty will be down on you like ahundred of bricks ; but Ill wager my pay for the com-mission, that theyll swallow the galley funnel and themaintopsail. I went away then and got a proper rig out, and whenId slung a hammock, and found out which was my mess,and all them little details, I came up on deck again tohave a last look at the island. It was far astern by then, and I stood gazing at it 124 SP UN YA RN A ND SPINDRIFT. until it slowly faded away and finally merged in the blueof the eastern horizon. And thats the end of myyarn. With that the boatswain rose and went off, leavingus to ponder over, and comment upon, what he hadtold CHAPTER VIII. IN THE TRADES. Oi\E BOTTLE BETWEEN SIX OF US—SAILING OUT OF HER COPPER— THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK—MUTINY AND MURDER—THE CHASE ALL HANDS TO BATTLE—CAPTURE OF THE FORMOSA. DIDNT quite know whether we should bebweaking any wules by coming here to playcards, and so on, said Billy Tooney oneevening, as he sorted his hand while havingfj a quiet game of whist in our berth—he andFeatherstone being opposed to the doctor andEdwards. Therefore I asked the captains permission,he continued. He told me we might come if the-apprentices were willing, but that we werent to staylater than eight oclock, and were on no account tobwing any gwog. I wanted to pwovide a little whiskey,but he wouldnt allow it;—though, exclaimed BillyLooney, triumphantly, we coaxed him until he gave to bwing a bottle of shewwy. Here it is ;.have you got anything to dwink it fwom ?
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