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With splintering of wood and clanging of s and began to fly to and fro across the

deck at the end of its tether, like a giant's slung-shot It circled, it

spun, it flung itself afar and returned in unexpected arcs

Men fled fro until it banged theback across the deck, to sla, tethered

for a victi

rush, the schooner shivered

"Free that halyard and douse the peak!" roared the firstlow, but he ran back when the boo that the iron bar fairly screa the mast out of her!" clamored Captain

Downs "Get soe! Catch that boo profane orders He seized

the fellow and thrust him toward the pins where the halyards were

belayed But at that instant the rushing boo-shot, and the iron banged the rail almost exactly where

the fouled line was secured The mate and the sailor fell flat on their

faces and crawled back froer

"Get some rope and noose that boo up his orders with some lurid sea oaths