...But we all know,' said Bob Langwill, ' what the sailor's commandment is : — ' Six days shalt them labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the Seventh, holystone the decks, and scrape down the cable." That's our life at sea, old boy, and even the carpenter can't mend...

...either.' ' But we all know,' said Bob Langwill, ' what the sailor's commandment is : — ' Six days shall thou labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the Seventh, holystone the decks, and scrape down the cable." That's our life at sea, old boy, and even the carpenter can't mend...

...Decalogue was said by the crew to be, in the words of the old nautical rhyme — " Six days shalt them labour, and do all that thou art able ; And on the...seventh, holystone the deck and scrape the cable." All human duties were summed up in Captain Stanford's system of morals in unremitting labour and the...

...Hence, doubtless, the origin of theii variation upon the fourth commandment : "Six days shall thou labor and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the decks and scrape the cable." When in the latitude of Lima we came across a ship lying directly upon...

...nothing but lounge about and smoke. The sailors had plenty to do. They say the commandment for them is : — " Six days shalt thou labour, and do all...the deck, and scrape the cable ! " In the evening we either had songs on the poop, or went below arid played at cards. At eight o'clock they had breakfast...

...akin to that of Dana's sailor, whose catechism prescribed : 1 Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able. And on the seventh, holystone the deck and scrape the cable. . . . ' " Saying nothing of Scripture, the secularization of the Lord's-day, or its encouragement in...

...done) and scraping the chain cables. The " Philadelphia Catechism" is, " Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks and scrape the cable." This kind of work, of course, is not kept up off Cape Horn, Cape of Good...

...should have any leisure, thus carrying out the commandment of the "Philadelphia Cathechism " — " Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks, and scrape the cable." * W. Bottomley, on sounding-machines and patent logs. CHAPTER XXIV. The...

...leisure, thus carrying out the commandment of the "Philadelphia Cathechism " — " Six days shalt them labour, and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh — holystone the decks, and scrape the cable." * \V. Bottomley, on sounding-machines and patent logs. CHAPTER XXIV....

...administed by a senior to a junior Friend, whom he met with the bills in his hand, in the words — " Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou art able, And on the seventh thou shalt holystone the deck and polish the cable." Much tract distribution was also undertaken by...