I've seen him beat that boy till the blood ran down in little pools on deck; then send him up, all wet and red, to clear the to'sail halliards; and when, what with the pain and faintness, he dizzied a little, and clung to the ratlines, half blind, he would have him down and flog him till the cap'n interfered,which would happen occasionally on a fair day when he had taken just enough to be good-natured.

It has cost me new halliards and rigging for the Eclipse, and Brutus a disfigured countenancenot that I am complaining.

" They did not answer me; but after a little more, when my expostulations had become more positive, Handy Solomon dropped the halliard, and drew me to one side.

We're ready to pull halliards at the word.

Not yet am I ready to weigh anchor, and reeve halliard, and turn my prow over the watery paths of the wine-brown Deeps.