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IN
- We have more to attend to!
PEER
- It was nonsense, captain! 'Twas only my joke;-
- as sure as I'm here I will help the cook-
THE CAPTAIN
- The jib's blown away!
THE MATE
- And there went the foresail!
THE BOATSWAIN [shrieks from forward].
- Breakers under the bow!
THE CAPTAIN
- She will go to shivers!
- [The ship strikes. Noise and confusion.]
SCENE SECOND
[Close under the land, among sunken rocks and surf. The ship sinks. The jolly-boat, with two men in her, is seen for a moment through the scud. A sea strikes her; she fills and upsets. A shriek is heard; then all is silent for a while. Shortly afterwards the boat appears floating bottom upwards.] [PEER GYNT comes to the surface near the boat.] PEER
- Help! Help! A boat! Help! I'll be drowned!
- Save me, oh Lord-as saith the text!
- [Clutches hold of the boat's keel.]
THE COOK [c
