16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
much bigger than that table – a whale, no
doubt. But the worm had been at it quite
amazingly. It still kept the water out, more or
less, but all the members around it worked
something horrid in anything of a sea. They
cut the whole piece back to sound wood, replaced
it as pretty as ever Pompey could have
done, and clapped on new copper twice as
thick as ours. There were those few knees that
we knew about and some we did not; but the
wrights were honest fellows – they made little
of it – and now we are as stiff as ever you
could wish.'
'Just where...' began Jack, but on deck the
cry 'The boat ahoy. What boat is that?' interrupted
him.
'I dare say that will be Father Panda,' said
Pullings. 'He usually comes about this time,
asking for news of you.'