[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER II 44/48
Draw a bucket, Harvey.
Oh, Penn, dump these in the gurry-butt 'fore you sleep.
Kin you keep awake that long ?" Penn took up the heavy basket of fish-livers, emptied them into a cask with a hinged top lashed by the foc'sle; then he too dropped out of sight in the cabin. "Boys clean up after dressin' down an' first watch in ca'am weather is boy's watch on the _We're Here_." Dan sluiced the pen energetically, unshipped the table, set it up to dry in the moonlight, ran the red knife-blades through a wad of oakum, and began to sharpen them on a tiny grindstone, as Harvey threw offal and backbones overboard under his direction. At the first splash a silvery-white ghost rose bolt upright from the oily water and sighed a weird whistling sigh.
Harvey started back with a shout, but Dan only laughed. "Grampus," said he.
"Beggin' fer fish-heads.
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