incident narrated something befell
Billy Budd that more gravelled him that aught
that had previously occurred.
It was a warm night ; for the latitude; and
the Foretopman, whose watch it was below,
should ha at the time was properly below,
was, with dozing on the the uppermost deck whither
he had ascended from his hot hammock
one of hundreds swinging so closely
suspended so closely wedged together over a over the lower gun- deck that
there was little or no swing to them.
He lay as in the shadow as of a hill , -side
stretched under the lee of the booms , Not many days after the last
incident narrated something befell
Billy Budd that more gravelled him that aught
that had previously occurred.
It was a warm night ; for the latitude; and
the Foretopman, whose watch it was below,
should ha at the time was properly below,
was, with dozing on the the uppermost deck whither
he had ascended from his hot hammock
one of hundreds swinging so closely
suspended so closely wedged together over a over the lower gun- deck that
there was little or no swing to them.
He lay as in the shadow as of a hill , -side
stretched under the lee of the booms , Not many days after the last
Transcribed by: John Bryant