There warn't no more high jinks.

Everybody got solemn; nobody talked; you couldn't get anybody to do anything but set around moody and look at the bar'l.

It begun to cloud up again.

When the watch changed, the off watch stayed up, 'stead of turning in.

The storm ripped and roared around all night, and in the middle of it another man tripped and sprained his ankle, and had to knock off.