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She's only got a fores'l and a jib, and the jib's only
The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Mayhap at the first burst o 'the gale you're hove on your beam-ends, an' away go the masts, leavin 'ye to drift ashore or sink; or p'raps you're sharp enough to get in sail, and have all snug, when, just as ye're weatherin' a headland, away goes the sheet o 'the jib, jib's blowed to ribbons, an' afore ye know where ye are, ` breakers on the lee bow! 'is the cry.
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