. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. ing aft, and pretty soonhauled him alongside by the break of the poop, and made a running bowline with the end of a goodstout rope, which he slipped down the line to which thehook was fastened, and at last managed to jam round 56 SPUN YARN AND SPINDRIFT. his body and one of his great fins. This rope was thenput in a snatch-block, which was hooked to a strop inthe main-rigging ; and after the shark had had his headhauled out of the water a few minutes, to drown him,as Jack Barrett said, we a
. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. ing aft, and pretty soonhauled him alongside by the break of the poop, and made a running bowline with the end of a goodstout rope, which he slipped down the line to which thehook was fastened, and at last managed to jam round 56 SPUN YARN AND SPINDRIFT. his body and one of his great fins. This rope was thenput in a snatch-block, which was hooked to a strop inthe main-rigging ; and after the shark had had his headhauled out of the water a few minutes, to drown him,as Jack Barrett said, we all clapped on to the rope—taking good care to be well out of reach—and landedhim smack on the deck, where he lay lashing out withhis great tail until the old cook persuaded him to bequiet by chopping it right off with his axe, and then, sothat there should be no mistake, his head was removedin a similar manner. When he was quite dead Rocky cut out his backboneand jaws, and the rest was thrown overboard—all butthe tail, which the carpenter nailed to the flying-jib-boom-end in CHAPTER V. THE DOLDRUMS.
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