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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: attack the debris with axes, and setting the example himself,
Cleggett soon saw the deck clear again, and the Jasper B., to all
intents, the same hulk she had been when he bought her. But such
was the fury of the tempest that even with the big kites gone the
Jasper B. continued to shake and quiver where she lay. Speech
was almost impossible on deck, but Cap'n Abernethy signed to
Cleggett that he had something important to say to him.
The whole company adjourned to the cabin, and there, shouting to
make himself heard, the Cap'n cried out:
"Her timbers have been strained something terrible, Mr. Cleggett.
She ain't what I would call safe and seaworthy any more. The'
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