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10. The Voyage

ALL that night we were in a great bustle getting things
stowed in their place, and boatfuls of the squire’s friends,
Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him a good
voyage and a safe return. We never had a night at the Admiral
Benbow when I had half the work; and I was dog-tired when, a
little before dawn, the boatswain sounded his pipe and the crew
began to man the capstan-bars. I might have been twice as weary,
yet I would not have left the deck, all was so new and interesting
to me--the brief commands, the shrill note of the whistle, the men
bustling to their places in the glimmer of the ship’s lanterns.

“Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave,” cried one voice.
“The old one,” cried another.

“Aye, aye, mates,” said Long John, who was standing by, with
his crutch under his arm, and at once broke out in the air and
words I knew so well:

“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest--”

And then the whole crew bore chorus:--

“Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

And at the third “Ho!” drove the bars before them with a will.
Even at that exciting moment it carried me back to the old
Admiral Benbow in a second, and I seemed to hear the voice of the
captain piping in the chorus. But soon the anchor was short up;

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