The last touch was put to the vessel by painting the skysail poles; and I was sent up to the fore, with a bucket of white paint and a brush, and touched her off, from the truck to the eyes of the royal rigging.
Toward morning, the wind having become light, we crossed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight we were seen under a cloud of sail, having royals and skysails fore and aft.
By this means the skysail may be taken in or set without the necessity of sending a man aloft.
In these, the topgallant, royal and skysail masts are all one stick.
Let the royal stay go round the mast-head, with a traveller, above the yard, so that the stay may travel up and down the skysail mast.
When the royal is taken in, haul the skysail yard down with the royal yard, and furl the sail in with the royal.
Applied to the highest mast of a ship, usually painted; as, skysail pole.
Seize a thimble into the stay, close against the forward part of the grommet; lead the skysail halyards through the thimble, and make them fast to the centre of the yard, which will need no parral, underneath the royal stay.
Sails stretched a mizen skysail which he patched; They thought the Dauber was a bad egg hatched.
Her house-flag was bright green with strips of white; High in the sunny air it rose to shake Above the skysail poles' most splendid rake.
He saw the belly of the skysail skied, Gulped, and clutched tight, and tried to go more fast.
Toward morning, the wind having become light, we crossed our royal and skysail yards, and at daylight we were seen under a cloud of sail, having royal and skysails fore and aft.
But I shall not believe in them till I see them; a skysailseems high enough in all conscience; and the idea of any thing higher than that, seems preposterous.
I set and took in every sail, from a skysailto a trysail.
I was delayed between the passes, went two days without food, and walked eleven miles on the third day before I got any, and yet I succeeded in passing Skysail Jack along the Fraser River in British Columbia.
I had misfortune in getting over the next hundred miles, and eight days later I picked up Skysail Jack's trail three hundred miles west of Ottawa.
Then my freight pulled out, and I was on it, bound west on the trail of Skysail Jack.
Truly, Skysail Jack, you were a tramp-royal, and your mate was the "wind that tramps the world.
I shared my Java and grub with him, learned about Skysail Jack, and then learned about him.
I wondered which way Skysail Jack would go, for I thought I was ahead of him.
But, almost immediately, roaring like a bull in order to be heard, Skysail Jack, a giant sailor of a lifer, ordered silence while a census could be taken.
And Skysail Jack and I peered and knew each other under the wreckage.
I could see little, for I was blinking in the sunshine like a bat, after five years of darkness; yet I saw enough of Skysail Jack to pain my heart.
There's only one thing, lads," Skysail Jack finally said.
After my five years in solitary, when they took me away from San Quentin for my trial, I saw Skysail Jack.
And the guards led me on, and that was the last I saw of Skysail Jack.
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