That man's luck's perfectly paralysin'.

Naow we'll take a-holt o' the tackles an' h'ist 'em in.

Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life?
Must feel kinder awful, don't it ?" "I'm going to try to work, anyway," Harvey replied stoutly.

"Only it's all dead new." "Lay a-holt o' that tackle, then.

Behind ye!" Harvey grabbed at a rope and long iron hook dangling from one of the stays of the mainmast, while Dan pulled down another that ran from something he called a "topping-lift," as Manuel drew alongside in his loaded dory.