He was describing an ordinary windlass hoist used at the shaft of a mine.

And I gave him a hoist with my gum-boot, a kind of a lift with my toe; But you can't give a fellow a hiding, as anyone sure must know, When you hauled him out of a snowdrift at maybe thirty 'below.'" C.F.S. * * * *

| sea and] Which is the Mightier, in his lawlesse fit [Footnote A: Here in the Quarto: [10]Ther's letters seald, and my two Schoolefellowes, Whom I will trust as I will Adders fang'd, They beare the mandat, they must sweep my way And marshall me to knauery: let it worke, For tis the sport to haue the enginer Hoist with his owne petar, an't shall goe hard

H.M.S. Alligator signalised the hoisting of the ensign with a salute of twenty-one guns.

Philip went through the usual formalities, superintended the hoisting of his trunks upon a clumsy motor truck, and was himself driven without question from the covered shed adjoining the quay.

" In due time they arrived at the seaport town, and, having seen that Bob's baggage would be transported to the dock, Captain Spark led the way to where the Eagle was waiting the hoisting of her white sails to catch the ocean breezes.