The course was N. N. East; but, as for the sail, I determined to stand on under our top-sails and fore-course, spanker and jib, until I could get a look by daylight.

The stranger was under his three top-sails, spanker and jib, each of the former sails being double reefed.

She was directly under our lee, gliding easily along under the same canvass; the reefs still in, the courses in the brails, and the spanker rolled up, as it had been for the night.

The spanker had been hauled out previously, to help the ship in tacking.

The English, however, were in no hurry; the two tri-color men being under their three top-sails, spankers, and jibs, with the top-gallant-sails clewed up, before John Bull reduced even a royal.

All four were under their top-sails, jibs, and spankers, with the courses in the brails.

We took down the topsails and furled the spanker.

Now we took the other boat, the only one left, and lashed it upright to the spanker-stays.

We had a hard time to get this boat loose from the spanker-stay, and we lowered it with the spanker-tackle.

We had a hard time to get this boat loose from the spanker-stay, and we lowered it with the spanker-tackle.

" "Haul the spanker-boom to windward," shouted the pilot; "lower away the boats, and tow the ship's head roundclear away the stream anchoraft gib-sheetboard main tack, again.

"If yonder sail had been built and fitted like other mortal craft," he said, "I should not be backward in pronouncing her a full-rigged ship, under three single-reefed topsails, courses, spanker, and jib.

tho'f I will say" "You were going to add" "That sometimes I find myself shifted over, in these here affairs," returned the topman, glancing his eye first at the flag of France, and then at the distant emblem of England, "like a jib-boom rigged, abaft, for a jury to the spanker.

"Dazzle" and "Lady Gay Spanker" "act themselves," and will never be dropped out of the list of acting plays.

Thus Bob loosed the jib, main-topmast and mizen-staysails, and saw the spanker clear for setting.

The spanker was next got out as well as two men could do it in a hurry, and then Bob went forward to tend the jib-sheet, and to look out for the buoys.

Kick, boy, kick like a spanker-boom in a hurricane!" Such were a few of the expressions that showered like hail round the men as they rushed hither and thither after the ball.

Possum, why wasn't old Spanker let go?

For a time he felt how much better, finer, more enjoyable, more beautiful, was this life of innocent communion with a pure soulpure, if just a little insipid, after the real spankers he had hitherto affected.

And beyond doubt she was a spanker.

Perhaps it was true, but, if so, it had been borne in the boudoir of the fair spanker whose husband may or may not have been named Harris.

She undoubtedly was a spanker.

The frigate, too, seemed to be aware that it was the moment for the siesta of vessels as well as of men; for she clewed up her royals and topgallant-sails, brailed her jib and spanker, hauled up her courses, and lay on the water as motionless as if sticking on a shoal.

Her fore-course was hauled up, and the spanker was brailed; then the royals were clewed up and furled; the topgallant-sails followed; and presently the Proserpine was reduced to her three topsails and jib.

Both vessels were stripped to their top-sails, spankers, and jibs, though the lofty sails of the Frenchman were fluttering in the breeze, like the graceful folds of some fanciful drapery.