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Are there men on the wreck?

I can just see three!

Quick: lower the stern boat

She'd fill ere she floated.

[Goes forward.

Who can think of that now?

[To some of the crew.

If you're men, to the rescue! What the devil, if you should get a bit of a ducking.

It's out of the question in such a sea.

They are screaming again! There's a lull in the wind.— Cook, will you risk it? Quick! I will pay

No, not if you offered me twenty pounds-sterling

You hounds! You chicken-hearts! Can you forget These are men that have goodwives and children at home? There they're sitting and waiting