[A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman]@TWC D-Link bookA Dream of the North Sea CHAPTER III 4/20
Many and many's the one I've seen go.
They're used to it, but I once seen a genelman faint--he was weak, poor fellow--and we took aboard a dose of water that left us half-full.
He would come at any risk, and when we histed him up on the cutter's deck, and he comes to, he shudders and he says, 'That is too horrible.
Am I a-dreaming ?' But it's all use, Miss. Even when some poor fellows is drowned, the men do all they can; and if they fail, they forget next day." "Could you edge us towards the cutter, skipper ?" said Fullerton. "Oh, yes.
Bear up for the carrier, Bill; mind this fellow coming down." The beautiful yacht was soon well under the steamer's lee, and the ladies watched with dazed curiosity the work of the tattered, filthy, greasy mob who bounded, and strained, and performed their prodigies of skill on the thofts and gunwales of the little boats.
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