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" I used to climb to the mizzentop very often with my book in my pocket, and sit there with my arm around a rope and read by the hour. The 114 Memories of Fifty Years. first time De Begnis saw me going up the shrouds he said : " Ha ! look atde young Wallack ! Don't go up dere, you fools ; suppose de strings was to broke, you *d go to de devil in de water ! " One night it was blowing very hard, and the ship was "taken aback," which is a very dangerous thing, and my father, who was an old sailor,... knew what it meant, and sung out to the steward : '* Shut in the deadlights ! " The next morning it was all right again, the sea had gone down, and De Begnis, who had been awfully scared, said : " I was not the only one afright ; there was the old Wallack, he was afright ; I hear him call to de steward to give him a light to die by ! " The first day out we were what is called *' on the wind," and the vessel was lying over pretty well. De Begnis, with nothing on but his drawers and shirt, put his body half-way into the main cabin and called out : ** Steward !
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