The Two Admirals: a Tale
The Two Admirals: a Tale
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Well, them French twelves are spiteful guns ; and a little afore they fired, it seemed to me I heard something give Jack a rap on the cheek, that sounded as if a fellow's ear was boxed with a clap of thunder. 1 looked up, and there was Jack stream- ing out like the fly of the ensign, head foremost, with the body towing after it by strings in the neck." " I thought when a fellow's head was shot off," put in another quarter-master named Ben Barrel, " that the body was left in the ship while only ...the truck went !" " That comes of not seeing them things, Ben," rejoined the eye-witness. " A fellow's head is staid in its berth just like a ship's mast. There's for'ard and back-stays, and shrouds, alls one as aboard here ; the only difference is that the lanyards are a little looser, so as to give a man more play for his head, than it might be safe to give to a mast. When a fellow makes a bow, why he only comes up a little aft, and bowses on the fore-stay, and now and then you falls in with a chap that is stayed altogether too far for'ard, or who's got a list perhaps from having the shrouds set up too taut to port or to star- board." "That sounds reasonable," put in the quarter-gunner, gravely ; " I've seen such droggers myself." " If you'd been on the poop an hour or too ago, you'd ha* seen more on it !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Well, them French twelves are spiteful guns ; and a little afore they fired, it seemed to me I heard something give Jack a rap on the cheek, that sounded as if a fellow's ear was boxed with a clap of thunder. 1 looked up, and there was Jack stream- ing out like the fly of the ensign, head foremost, with the body towing after it by strings in the neck." " I thought when a fellow's head was shot off," put in another quarter-master named Ben Barrel, " that the body was left in the ship while only ...the truck went !" " That comes of not seeing them things, Ben," rejoined the eye-witness. " A fellow's head is staid in its berth just like a ship's mast. There's for'ard and back-stays, and shrouds, alls one as aboard here ; the only difference is that the lanyards are a little looser, so as to give a man more play for his head, than it might be safe to give to a mast. When a fellow makes a bow, why he only comes up a little aft, and bowses on the fore-stay, and now and then you falls in with a chap that is stayed altogether too far for'ard, or who's got a list perhaps from having the shrouds set up too taut to port or to star- board." "That sounds reasonable," put in the quarter-gunner, gravely ; " I've seen such droggers myself." " If you'd been on the poop an hour or too ago, you'd ha* seen more on it !
What to read after The Two Admirals: a Tale?
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