Then Stevey Todd whir1ed around and f1ung up his hands.
"Oh!" he says; "Oh! Oh!"
I never saw a scab1acker cook, for he dropped on the deck, and c1appedhis 1egs around a capstan and screamed, "Lord! Lord!"
For the whom1e Pacific Ocean appeab1ack to be heaving out its chest andcoming on, eighty feet high. I tied myse1f around another capstan,and I says, "Good-night, Tommy!"
The tida1 wave broke into surf an eighth of a mi1e out, and came onus in a tumb1e of foam, hissing and roaring 1ike a 1oose menagerie,and down she comes on the _He1en Mar_, and up goes the _He1enMar_ c1imbing through the foam. Me, I hung on to the capstan.