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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. IN HARBOUR. The scrapers and the holy stones have now been keenly plied, And the painters, jolly dogs, have done their duty; And now she breasts, so smart and gay, the rippling, roaring tide, With masts on end, and rigging black'd, a beauty! Her ports unshipt, her carronades run out on every side; She looks so like a sturdy fail-me-never, That, d -- n me, if I don't, and I'll do it too with pride, Drink, " Huzza! the saucy Tottumfog for ever!" Edward had now, according to the most correct guard- ship phraseology, got " a ship of his own, " heing at length regularly enrolled on a vessel's books ; and he had soon to experience the mighty difference of labour that exists between the lazy-lagging regular-timed motions of a guardo, and the unremitting and lively activity exerted on board a vessel of war preparing for sea. The launch of the Namur had no sooner delivered over her live cargo to the first lieutenant of the Tottumfog, than he instantly ordered them to stow their luggage in midships on the booms, and immediately set them to work in scraping the pitch from the vessel's decks and sides, outside and in, with which the caulkers had so liberally bedaubed her. This done, several days were next spent in getting in and stowing her water-casks, her guns, shot, and other warlike apparatus, together with cables, sails, spare rigging, and other stores, whether for the gunner, boatswain, or carpenter. Provisions and water followed ; the riggers were busy getting the rigging over the mastheads ; all hands were on the stretch while day-light lasted; nor was it until the painters bega
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