Under sail . on the part of themate. Keep moving, you beach-combing — ! Every lousy ! I wont have no lime juice sleeping on deck this voyage. Dyehear that? All heard, for there was a shuffle ofweary feet about the main hatch, where severalof the watch had perched comfortably in thedark, and, after a moment of indecision, sprin-kled with derogatory mutterings, we paired offin little groups of twos, walking the swayingdeck wherever we could find places free from theback draft of the sails. Frenchy was my first chum on the Fuller^ andthough for periods we drifted apart, throughsheer mutual exhaus
Under sail . on the part of themate. Keep moving, you beach-combing — ! Every lousy ! I wont have no lime juice sleeping on deck this voyage. Dyehear that? All heard, for there was a shuffle ofweary feet about the main hatch, where severalof the watch had perched comfortably in thedark, and, after a moment of indecision, sprin-kled with derogatory mutterings, we paired offin little groups of twos, walking the swayingdeck wherever we could find places free from theback draft of the sails. Frenchy was my first chum on the Fuller^ andthough for periods we drifted apart, throughsheer mutual exhaustion of our interchangeableideas, yet we always came together again. Some-how, on the very start of the voyage, when thecrimps and runners bade us that sad farewellfrom the port of New York, we were drawn to-gether. The night that we paired off, on ourfirst watch at sea, it seemed natural that Frenchyand I should elect to stump the deck in preempted a path from the lee main pin rail 26 UNDER SAIL.
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