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Excerpt from Heart of Oak, Vol. 2 of 3: A Three-Stranded Yarn
The sail shone like a peak of ice against a belly of soft snow-cloud right ahead - that is, ahead as the hull's bows lay. I should have supposed it ice, but for the captain, who stood close beside the companion holding the ship's glass: he said, There she is, miss.' Is she coming this way?' cried I, shiver ing with cold and passion.
I can't tell as yet. She's only just been sighted. Bear a hand with the first empty tar barrel vou can get hold of, ' he bawled.
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