2 115 93 105 true to duty. So in the merchant service
it had always been with him. But now
such a punctiliousness in duty ^ was shown that his
topmates would sometimes good-naturedly
laugh at him for it. This heightened
alacrity had its cause, namely, the
impression made upon him by the
first formal gangway-punishment he
had ever witnessed, which befell the
day following his impressment. It
had been incurred by ^ by a little fellow, young, and much a novice an after-guardsman
absent from his assigned post when
the ship was being put about , ; a ^ deriliction
resulting in a rather serious hitch
to in that maneu manoeuvre, one
demanding instantanious instantaneous prop
promptitude in letting go and
making fast.
2 115 93 105 true to duty. So in the merchant service
it had always been with him. But now
such a punctiliousness in duty ^ was shown that his
topmates would sometimes good-naturedly
laugh at him for it. This heightened
alacrity had its cause, namely, the
impression made upon him by the
first formal gangway-punishment he
had ever witnessed, which befell the
day following his impressment. It
had been incurred by ^ by a little fellow, young, and much a novice an after-guardsman
absent from his assigned post when
the ship was being put about , ; a ^ deriliction
resulting in a rather serious hitch
to in that maneu manoeuvre, one
demanding instantanious instantaneous prop
promptitude in letting go and
making fast.

Transcribed by: John Bryant