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I'll give you ſixpence ſaid he, to buy gingerbread, and go aſhore again, and be d--- to you; a little after I was called aboard out of the boat into the tender, where he feelt my hands and ſaid he belived I might do, and ordrered me to waſh myſelf, and get cloaths, in a little the boat-ſwen comes paſt and cries, you, help to haul the main-ſail, I run fore and aft, betwen the cabin and the forcaſtle, I tramps on his toes, which ſet him a curſing me, ſaying what was I ſeeking there; O! ſaid I tell me where the main-yard is, I am going there, at this he ſwore I was a mad man to be ſeeking the main-yard on the deck, he ſaid. what do you not know the main-yard yet? and how ſhould I know the main-yard? when I was never here before, I was next ordered up to hand the fore top-ſail, and being without the clew, the other man firled his, but I roled mine together, in a very carleſs way, the other man when done, went down, but I keept lying over the yard, holding by the ſail, the boat-ſwen call's out, what are you doing there, do you want up your hammock? no ſaid I, but if I come down the ſail will fa, why ſaid he, can't you put on the gaſket on it, no ſaid I, and then lets it all fall down as it was, ſo another had to mount, and I came down, but och the curſſes I got, he again ſent me to make foxes, which I did the firſt two very well to his pleaſure, but he was no ſooner gone than I took my knife and cut ſome peices of the yarn, and began to plet it as a lingel to mend an old shoe, he comes again, and lookes at me, ſaying what are you doing now, deed ſaid I, I am makin foxes, yoa'r making the devil ſirah, takes me over tde mouth with his rattan, till the blood followed,
