[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER III 20/55
Come up on her, and keep your rodin' straight up an' down." "It doesn't move," said the little man, panting.
"It doesn't move at all, and instead I tried everything." "What's all this hurrah's-nest for'ard ?" said Dan, pointing to a wild tangle of spare oars and dory-roding, all matted together by the hand of inexperience. "Oh, that," said Penn proudly, "is a Spanish windlass.
Mr.Salters showed me how to make it; but even that doesn't move her." Dan bent low over the gunwale to hide a smile, twitched once or twice on the roding, and, behold, the anchor drew at once. "Haul up, Penn," he said laughing, "er she'll git stuck again." They left him regarding the weed-hung flukes of the little anchor with big, pathetic blue eyes, and thanking them profusely. "Oh, say, while I think of it, Harve," said Dan when they were out of ear-shot, "Penn ain't quite all caulked.
He ain't nowise dangerous, but his mind's give out.
See ?" "Is that so, or is it one of your father's judgments ?" Harvey asked as he bent to his oars.
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