The bar'l left towards day, and nobody see it go.
'Everybody was sober and down in the mouth all day.

I don't mean the kind of sober that comes of leaving liquor alone--not that.

They was quiet, but they all drunk more than usual--not together--but each man sidled off and took it private, by himself.
'After dark the off watch didn't turn in; nobody sung, nobody talked; the boys didn't scatter around, neither; they sort of huddled together, forrard; and for two hours they set there, perfectly still, looking steady in the one direction, and heaving a sigh once in a while.

And then, here comes the bar'l again.

She took up her old place.