Excerpt: ..."'Frisco grain ship. Stuff in bulk. And it's shifted." "Looks that way. Have you forgotten all your 'mainsail haul' and the square-rig gymnastics?" "I'm hard enough pushed now to remember even the theory-sums they taught at navigation school if I thought they would serve me." "I know. And I'm as sorry for you, Captain, as I can hold. But you see, it's this: I'm short of sailormen; I've barely enough to steer and keep the decks clean; anyway I've none to spare." "I don't ask for fancy goods," said Kettle eagerly. ...
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Excerpt: ..."'Frisco grain ship. Stuff in bulk. And it's shifted." "Looks that way. Have you forgotten all your 'mainsail haul' and the square-rig gymnastics?" "I'm hard enough pushed now to remember even the theory-sums they taught at navigation school if I thought they would serve me." "I know. And I'm as sorry for you, Captain, as I can hold. But you see, it's this: I'm short of sailormen; I've barely enough to steer and keep the decks clean; anyway I've none to spare." "I don't ask for fancy goods," said Kettle eagerly. "Give me anything with hands on it--apes, niggers, stokers, what you like, and I'll soon teach them their dancing steps." Captain Image pulled at his moustache. "The trouble of it is, we are short everywhere. It's been a sickly voyage, this. I couldn't let you have more than two out of the stokehold, and even if we take those, the old Chief will be fit to eat me. You could do nothing with that big vessel with only two beside yourself." "Let me go round and see. I believe I can rake up enough hands somehow." "Well, you must be quick about it," said Image. "I've wasted more than enough time already. I can only give you five minutes, Captain. Oh, by the way, there's a nigger stowaway from Sarry Leone you can take if you like. He's a stonemason or some such foolishness, and I don't mind having him drowned. If you hammer him enough, probably he'll learn how to put some weight on a brace." "That stonemason's just the man I can use," said Kettle. "Get him for me. I'll never forget your kindness over this, Captain, and you may depend upon me to do the square thing by you if I get her home." Captain Kettle ran off down the bridge and was quickly out of sight, and hard at his quest for volunteers. Captain Image waited a minute, and he turned to his third mate. "Now, me lad," he said, "I know you're disappointed; but with the other mates sick like they are, it's just impossible for me to let you go. If I did, the Company would sack me, and the dirty...
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