1. Ow.Copy !req
2. Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,Copy !req
3. God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save our suppliant soul.Copy !req
4. To four weeks.Copy !req
5. No, sir. Thank you.Copy !req
6. It's bad luck to leave
a toast unfinished, lad.Copy !req
7. Oh, meanin'-- meanin' no disrespect.Copy !req
8. Man what don't drink
best have his reasons.Copy !req
9. Uh... Ain't it... I...Copy !req
10. I... I understood
it's against regulations, sir—Copy !req
11. Did you?Copy !req
12. I did, sir. From, uh...
From them's manual.Copy !req
13. Didn't picture you a readin' man.Copy !req
14. Well, I ain't trying for trouble.Copy !req
15. Then you'll do as I say.Copy !req
16. That's in your book too.Copy !req
17. To four weeks.Copy !req
18. Aye. Aye. The cistern needs a-lookin' to.Copy !req
19. One of your duties, lad.
Or didn't y'read yourself about it?Copy !req
20. You'll clean the brass and the clockwork,
and you'll tidy up the quarters after.Copy !req
21. And there's well more
to be mended outside.Copy !req
22. Do you hear me, lad?Copy !req
23. Yes, sir.Copy !req
24. Aye, sir!Copy !req
25. Aye, sir.Copy !req
26. When the fog clears,
you'll work through the dog watch.Copy !req
27. Doggin' it?Copy !req
28. I was 'specting I'd get up
to see the lantern.Copy !req
29. I tend the light.Copy !req
30. Well, the rules is alternatin' shifts.Copy !req
31. It's the mid-watch that's to dread, lad.
My watch, night to morning.Copy !req
32. Some new junior man I'm fixed with.Copy !req
33. See to your duties. The light is mine.Copy !req
34. Son of a bitch!Copy !req
35. Shingles.Copy !req
36. Tend to 'em after the cistern.Copy !req
37. And the lamp, she needs oil.Copy !req
38. Aye, sir.Copy !req
39. Go!Copy !req
40. Move it.Copy !req
41. You don't go in there!Copy !req
42. - Oil, sir.
- Tired? Use this next time.Copy !req
43. Save you a hell of a lot of trouble.Copy !req
44. Catch your breath, lad.Copy !req
45. I said, catch your breath, lad.Copy !req
46. Then bring that drum back down
the ladder well where y'found it.Copy !req
47. 'Less you're fixin'
to burn the whole light down.Copy !req
48. Then see to the rest of your duties.
You're behindhand already.Copy !req
49. - Aye, sir.
- You're too slow. You a dullard?Copy !req
50. No, sir.Copy !req
51. Fooled me.Copy !req
52. Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,Copy !req
53. God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save the suppliant soul.Copy !req
54. Still tastes o'the head?Copy !req
55. Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad.
Now is the time for gab and chatter.Copy !req
56. Y'best be enjoying it.Copy !req
57. Come a fortnight,
and the brace of us'll be wantin'Copy !req
58. to be ever silent as the tomb.Copy !req
59. I ain't much for talkin'.Copy !req
60. Reckon you're the first?Copy !req
61. No, sir. I don't.Copy !req
62. Y'ain't.Copy !req
63. Y'ain't.Copy !req
64. The Chicopee, a fine-un she were.Copy !req
65. Clean-built and trig-lookin'.Copy !req
66. None more fleet in '64 than she.Copy !req
67. We were on the breaks.Copy !req
68. A mutiny, it were.Copy !req
69. And why, ask ye? Why?Copy !req
70. What's the terrible part
of a sailor's life, ask ye, lad?Copy !req
71. 'Tis when the work stops
when you're twixt wind and water.Copy !req
72. Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil.Copy !req
73. Boredom makes men to villains,
and the water goes quick, lad, vanished.Copy !req
74. The only med'cine is drink.Copy !req
75. Keeps them sailors happy,
keeps 'em agreeable,Copy !req
76. keeps 'em calm, keeps 'em—Copy !req
77. Stupid.Copy !req
78. Curse me if there ain't an old tar spirit
somewheres in ye, lad.Copy !req
79. Out with it, lad.Copy !req
80. Uh...Copy !req
81. What, uh...
What made your last keeper leave?Copy !req
82. Him? Me second?Copy !req
83. Mm-hmm.Copy !req
84. Died.Copy !req
85. Went mad, he did.Copy !req
86. Ravin' about sirens, merfolk,
bad omens and the like.Copy !req
87. In the end, weren't no more sense left
in him than an hen's tooth.Copy !req
88. He believed that there was
some enchantment in the light.Copy !req
89. He notioned that St. Elmo
had cast his very fire into it.Copy !req
90. Salvation, said he.Copy !req
91. Tall tales.Copy !req
92. I seen ye sparrin' with a gull.Copy !req
93. Best leave 'em be.Copy !req
94. Bad luck to kill a seabird.Copy !req
95. More tall tales.Copy !req
96. Bad luck to kill a seabird!Copy !req
97. Pay me no mind, lad.Copy !req
98. None.Copy !req
99. Fix us up some coffee.Copy !req
100. Long night ahead.Copy !req
101. Drop o'coffee will do us good.Copy !req
102. You've been neglecting your duties, lad!Copy !req
103. Don't deny it!Copy !req
104. What do you call that?Copy !req
105. - Sir?
- What?Copy !req
106. I— I mopped and swept twice over, sir.Copy !req
107. Ye lyin' dog.Copy !req
108. - I swept 'em.
- 'Tis begrimed and bedabbled.Copy !req
109. Unwiped, unwashed, and distained.Copy !req
110. You get some kinda peart
outta molestin' me?Copy !req
111. Come now?Copy !req
112. I already says—Copy !req
113. How dare ye contradict me, y'dog.Copy !req
114. Now look here,
I ain't never intended to be no housewifeCopy !req
115. nor slave in takin' this job.Copy !req
116. It ain't right.Copy !req
117. These lodgings is more ramshackle
than any shanty boy's camp I ever seen.Copy !req
118. The Queen of England's
own fancy housekeeperCopy !req
119. couldn't even done no better
than what I done,Copy !req
120. 'cause I tell you, I scrubbed
this here place twice over, sir—Copy !req
121. And I say y'did nothin' o'the sort.Copy !req
122. And I say y'swab it again,
and y'swab it proper-like this time,Copy !req
123. and you'll be swabbin' it
ten times more after that.Copy !req
124. And if I tells ye to pull up and apartCopy !req
125. every floorboard and clapboard
of this here houseCopy !req
126. and scour 'em down with your bare,
bleedin' knuckles, you'll do it!Copy !req
127. And if I tells ye to yank out
every single nailCopy !req
128. from every molderin' nail-hole
and suck off every speck of rustCopy !req
129. till all them nails sparkle
like a sperm whale's pecker,Copy !req
130. and then carpenter the whole light station
back together from scrap,Copy !req
131. and then do it all over again,
you'll do it!Copy !req
132. And by God and by golly,Copy !req
133. you'll do it smilin', lad,
'cause you'll like it.Copy !req
134. You'll like it 'cause I says you will!Copy !req
135. Contradict me again,
and I'll dock your wages.Copy !req
136. D'ye hear me, lad?Copy !req
137. Aye, sir.Copy !req
138. Ah.Copy !req
139. Swab, dog. Swab!Copy !req
140. Keep 'em steady, lad!Copy !req
141. Aye, sir.Copy !req
142. Whitewash must be even, lad.
Bright! Shinin'!Copy !req
143. Like a silver whorehouse token.
Give them sailors a proper daymark.Copy !req
144. They're not going to see it
in a goddamn storm!Copy !req
145. Keep your temper now, lad.Copy !req
146. 'Tis fine work. And you're makin'
high marks in me logbook.Copy !req
147. Them's gospel.Copy !req
148. I'll drop y'down a few feet.Copy !req
149. Easy!Copy !req
150. Never been in better hands.Copy !req
151. Easy!Copy !req
152. Quit your flailing, lad.Copy !req
153. - I ain't!
- Y'are!Copy !req
154. - Keep still!
- I am!Copy !req
155. Git! Git! Git! Git!Copy !req
156. Thank ye, lad.Copy !req
157. Winslow.Copy !req
158. Ephraim Winslow.Copy !req
159. These last two weeks, I'd...Copy !req
160. I'd like it if you'd call me by my name.Copy !req
161. Listen to ye,Copy !req
162. giving orders, lad.Copy !req
163. - Winslow.
- All right, all right.Copy !req
164. Suits me just as fine, Ephraim Winslow.Copy !req
165. So, what brung such a one as ye
to this damned rock?Copy !req
166. Such as what?Copy !req
167. Pretty as a picture.Copy !req
168. Only joshing, lad, only josh—Copy !req
169. - Winslow.
- Winslow.Copy !req
170. What brung ye...Copy !req
171. to this rock, Ephraim Winslow?Copy !req
172. What were your work afore?Copy !req
173. - Timber.
- Timber?Copy !req
174. Big timber. Up north. Canada ways.Copy !req
175. - Hudson Bay outfit?
- The same.Copy !req
176. True what they say?
"Forest as far as the eye can see"?Copy !req
177. Yes, sir. Spruce, tamarack, white pine.Copy !req
178. "Bush," them folk up there call it.Copy !req
179. Had enough of trees, that it, then?Copy !req
180. Yes, sir.Copy !req
181. Can't say I blame ye.Copy !req
182. I Hearn tell about that life. Hard goin'.Copy !req
183. Work one man harder
than two horses, they say.Copy !req
184. No, thankee.Copy !req
185. The sea, she's the only situation
wantin' for me.Copy !req
186. Miss it?Copy !req
187. Ain't nothing what can touch it.Copy !req
188. But I can't...Copy !req
189. be draggin' me old stump about.Copy !req
190. Nay. Not worth the trouble.Copy !req
191. Now I'm a wickie and a wickie I is.Copy !req
192. And I'm damn-well wedded
to this here light,Copy !req
193. and she's been a finer,
truer, quieter wifeCopy !req
194. than any alive-blooded woman.Copy !req
195. You ever married?Copy !req
196. Thirteen Christmases at sea...Copy !req
197. little 'uns at home.Copy !req
198. She never forgave it.Copy !req
199. 'Tis for the better.Copy !req
200. Since we're getting too friendly,
Ephraim Winslow,Copy !req
201. tell me, what's a timber man
want with being a wickie?Copy !req
202. Not enough quiet for ye up north?Copy !req
203. Sawdust itching your nethers?Copy !req
204. Foreman found ye too high-tempered
for carrying an ax?Copy !req
205. Like you said,
I just had enough of trees, I guess.Copy !req
206. Since I left Dad,Copy !req
207. I done every kind of work
that can pay a man.Copy !req
208. Some I ain't near proud of.Copy !req
209. Drifter, eh?Copy !req
210. No, just...Copy !req
211. Can't find a post
I can take a real shine to,Copy !req
212. so I keep movin' along.Copy !req
213. And I ain't the kind to look back
at what's behind him, see.Copy !req
214. On the run?Copy !req
215. Now look here, ain't nothin' wrong
with a man startin' fresh, startin' new,Copy !req
216. just lookin' to earn a living.Copy !req
217. No.Copy !req
218. Just like any man,Copy !req
219. just wanna settle down
quiet-like with some earnings.Copy !req
220. I read someplace
that a man could earn 630 or...Copy !req
221. I read $1,000 a yearCopy !req
222. if he tends a light far off shore.Copy !req
223. The further away, the more he earns.Copy !req
224. I read that, and hell, I says, work.Copy !req
225. Save my earnings.Copy !req
226. Sometime soon I'll raise my own roof,Copy !req
227. somewheres up country,
with no one to tell me what for.Copy !req
228. And that's all.Copy !req
229. Same old borin' story, eh?Copy !req
230. Well, you asked.Copy !req
231. Say, why is it bad luck to kill a gull?Copy !req
232. In 'em's the souls of sailors
what met their maker.Copy !req
233. You a prayin' man, Winslow?Copy !req
234. Not as often as I might.Copy !req
235. But I'm God-fearin',
if that's what you're askin'.Copy !req
236. Shit.Copy !req
237. Wind's changed.Copy !req
238. Oh. Good riddance.Copy !req
239. Oh, don't be so darn foolish.
It's the calm afore the storm, Winslow.Copy !req
240. She were a gentle westerly wind
you're cursin'.Copy !req
241. Only feels roughly 'cause you don't know
nothin' about nothin',Copy !req
242. and there ain't no trees on this here rock
like your Hudson Bay bush.Copy !req
243. Nor'Easterly wind'll come soonCopy !req
244. a-blowin' like Gabriel's horn.Copy !req
245. Best board up them signal house winders.Copy !req
246. - Aye, sir.
- 'Twill keep steadyCopy !req
247. afore the tender comes in the morn,
I 'spect,Copy !req
248. but there's dirty weather knockin' about.Copy !req
249. Somethin' stirring in ye?Copy !req
250. You're gettin' off this rock tomorry,
Winslow.Copy !req
251. Don't start grudgen me now.Copy !req
252. No, sir.Copy !req
253. Keeping secrets, are ye?Copy !req
254. I could just use a hand
with them boards, is all.Copy !req
255. Pull, Winslow!Copy !req
256. Look at 'em.Copy !req
257. Better than fin fishin'.Copy !req
258. Ain't no crime to take a snort now.
A clear night, and our last afore relief.Copy !req
259. I ain't never known an inspector
what wouldn't turn a blind eye.Copy !req
260. And I won't take no for an answer.Copy !req
261. Should pale death and treble dread...Copy !req
262. Ah, hell. To— to relief.Copy !req
263. And how.Copy !req
264. Oh!Copy !req
265. ? Hurrah, we're homeward bound?Copy !req
266. ? Hurrah, we're homeward bound!Copy !req
267. ? When we're arrived at Bedford docks?Copy !req
268. ? Them bloomers comin' out in flocks?Copy !req
269. ? Them pretty girls
They all did say?Copy !req
270. ? Here comes Jack
With his nine-month pay?Copy !req
271. ? Hurrah, we're homeward bound?Copy !req
272. ? Hurrah, we're homeward bound!Copy !req
273. and a pretty lass, she were,
takin' off her bonnet,Copy !req
274. but as I says, I'd broke me leg,
and banged meself all up.Copy !req
275. It was to a nuns' hospital.Copy !req
276. All of them nuns
were Catholics, I tell ye.Copy !req
277. But I never went to Salem since
without hoping that I should see her,Copy !req
278. for beddin' down weren't the same since.Copy !req
279. You feel shame when you lie with a woman?Copy !req
280. I ain't 'shamed of nothing!Copy !req
281. Well, I'll say it...Copy !req
282. I might even miss ye, Ephraim Winslow.Copy !req
283. You're fastly a true blue wickieCopy !req
284. in the making, you is.Copy !req
285. Thought one night you was bound to
split me skull in twain,Copy !req
286. but you're a good-un.Copy !req
287. Why, you'll be workin' the lamp
in no time.Copy !req
288. Why haven't I?Copy !req
289. What?Copy !req
290. The light.Copy !req
291. I'm the keeper of this station, lad.Copy !req
292. Some other station, y'can tend the light.Copy !req
293. The manual says—Copy !req
294. - My log is the only book on this rock...
- Since I'm wickie—Copy !req
295. I'm the keeper of the light, lad.
I never let no man touch her...Copy !req
296. Don't concern yourself
with the beacon, lad!Copy !req
297. Mine!Copy !req
298. Have it your way.Copy !req
299. Say, I never...Copy !req
300. I don't— I don't know your name.Copy !req
301. Wake.Copy !req
302. Your Christian name.Copy !req
303. Thomas.Copy !req
304. - Thomas?
- Aye, Thomas Wake.Copy !req
305. Call me Tom.Copy !req
306. Well...Copy !req
307. To my friend Tom.Copy !req
308. And gettin' off this goddamn rock.Copy !req
309. What are y'splittin' your lungs fer?Copy !req
310. You smell o' shit.Copy !req
311. Best swab this mess
afore the tender comes.Copy !req
312. Do as you're told, lad.
The quarters are dire.Copy !req
313. Aye... Aye, sir. Aye.Copy !req
314. They didn't come.Copy !req
315. The damp's got to the provisions!Copy !req
316. What?Copy !req
317. The damp's got to the provisions!Copy !req
318. The damp's got to the foodstuffs.
The salt cod is out.Copy !req
319. - Out?
- Blasted. Gone to rot.Copy !req
320. - Praised be.
- Will you hear me now?Copy !req
321. - Hear what?
- That we best be rationing.Copy !req
322. - Rationing?
- Insubordinate again?Copy !req
323. It's only been one day.Copy !req
324. Devil's tail.Copy !req
325. Look, maybe the tender did come.
We just missed her, is all.Copy !req
326. I can take the dory out.Copy !req
327. Weeks, Winslow. Weeks.Copy !req
328. What?Copy !req
329. What do you mean, what?Copy !req
330. - Weeks?
- Weeks. Aye, weeks.Copy !req
331. We slept in. Dead drunk.Copy !req
332. It's been weeks ago
since we missed her, Winslow.Copy !req
333. And I've been askin' ye
to ration for weeks now, too,Copy !req
334. but you've kept barking at me
like a mad dogCopy !req
335. sayin' you can take the dory out.Copy !req
336. - Now, look here—
- Oh, no. Don't be losing your head now.Copy !req
337. - This ain't funny.
- No, it ain't.Copy !req
338. And I ain't want to be stranded here
with some damn lunatic.Copy !req
339. Stranded?Copy !req
340. That's what I said.Copy !req
341. Why, I thought— I thought you said
relief was coming.Copy !req
342. If we can wait out the storm.Copy !req
343. The tender is coming.Copy !req
344. In '75, Ol' Striker were marooned here
for seven long months, he was.Copy !req
345. The storm died on the mainland,
but here, the waters were too ragefulCopy !req
346. neither to launch nor land.Copy !req
347. You're just tryin' to scare me.Copy !req
348. Look at ye. Pretendin'.Copy !req
349. But ye well know your lot.Copy !req
350. Dig!Copy !req
351. Dig, says I!Copy !req
352. Dig!Copy !req
353. Dig!Copy !req
354. There she lies.Copy !req
355. Rations.Copy !req
356. The worst of us
couldn't fend 'gainst the ship ratsCopy !req
357. what gnawed on the soles of our feet.Copy !req
358. Their legs withered
and turned gangree'nous,Copy !req
359. every shade of the peacock's tail.Copy !req
360. Their gums grew swollen,
the color of bone, then to rot.Copy !req
361. Tarry blood oozed,Copy !req
362. teeth droppin' to the deck
with none to hold on to.Copy !req
363. "Land ho!" hears I,Copy !req
364. but only grass on that island.
So we et upon the grass.Copy !req
365. And 'twas that scurvy
what left me locked ever since.Copy !req
366. I thought you said you'd broke it.Copy !req
367. Aye?Copy !req
368. Your leg.Copy !req
369. Catholic nuns and such like.Copy !req
370. You must've misheard.Copy !req
371. - I told that dumb bastard...
- Yep. Them eaves be gonners.Copy !req
372. "Give me your cant hook," I says to him.Copy !req
373. But... Foreman Winslow,Copy !req
374. that goddamned Canady bastard...Copy !req
375. - Winslow?
- ... always callin' me a dog.Copy !req
376. A filthy dog.Copy !req
377. - I'll show you who's a dog.
- Winslow.Copy !req
378. - What of him?
- Who, Winslow?Copy !req
379. The eaves be fallin'...Copy !req
380. - He's always raggin' on me.
- Ragging?Copy !req
381. Like you. Damn fool nonsense.Copy !req
382. That's the trouble with ye, Winslow.Copy !req
383. Trouble with you is eatin' grass
without no teeth.Copy !req
384. Come now?Copy !req
385. Your sea matey's teeth had fallen out.Copy !req
386. What are ye gettin' at, Winslow?Copy !req
387. Ah. Well, it just seems powerful hardCopy !req
388. to eat grass with no teeth.Copy !req
389. 'Cause goats and sheeps and cows,Copy !req
390. well, now, they all got teeth, don't they?Copy !req
391. Y'know how y'eat grass without your teeth?Copy !req
392. Oblige me.Copy !req
393. Ye rip it out and ye swallow it.Copy !req
394. "You rip it out and you swallow it."Copy !req
395. - Ye rip it out...
- I don't know 'bout that.Copy !req
396. Y'don't?Copy !req
397. I don't.Copy !req
398. What?Copy !req
399. What?Copy !req
400. What?Copy !req
401. What?Copy !req
402. What?Copy !req
403. - What?
- What?Copy !req
404. - What?
- What?Copy !req
405. - What?
- What?Copy !req
406. - What?
- What?Copy !req
407. - What?
- What?Copy !req
408. - What?
- What?Copy !req
409. What?Copy !req
410. - That's what I mean!
- What?Copy !req
411. That's the trouble with you.Copy !req
412. That's the trouble with ye!Copy !req
413. - With you!
- With ye!Copy !req
414. No! No!Copy !req
415. I want a steak!Copy !req
416. I want a goddamned steak!Copy !req
417. I...Copy !req
418. If I had a steak... Oh, boy.Copy !req
419. A... A rare, a bloody steak.Copy !req
420. If I... If I had a steak,Copy !req
421. I would fuck it.Copy !req
422. You don't like me cookin'?Copy !req
423. Ugh, don't be such an old bitch!Copy !req
424. You're drunk!
You don't know what you're talkin'.Copy !req
425. How could I possibly like
the horseshit you fix us for supper?Copy !req
426. You're drunk,
or ye wouldn't be saying that!Copy !req
427. Them tin kitchen shanty cooks
gave us fried doughnuts three times a dayCopy !req
428. - and country ham bigger than your fist.
- You're drunk! You're drunk! You're drunk!Copy !req
429. - I'm drunk? I—
- You heard me!Copy !req
430. - You've been drunk—
- Damn ye!Copy !req
431. Drunk since I first laid eyes on you.Copy !req
432. You're fond of me lobster, ain't ye?Copy !req
433. You're drunker than a Virginy fence.Copy !req
434. I seen it. You're fond of me lobster.Copy !req
435. Say it.Copy !req
436. Say it.Copy !req
437. Say it!Copy !req
438. I don't have to say nothin'.Copy !req
439. Damn ye!Copy !req
440. Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow!Copy !req
441. Hark!Copy !req
442. Hark, Triton, Hark!Copy !req
443. Bellow, bid our father, the sea king,Copy !req
444. rise from the depths,
full foul in his fury,Copy !req
445. black waves teeming with salt-foam,Copy !req
446. to smother this young mouth
with pungent slime,Copy !req
447. to choke ye, engorging your organs
till ye turn blue and bloatedCopy !req
448. with bilge and brine
and can scream no more.Copy !req
449. Only when he, crowned in cockle shellsCopy !req
450. with slithering tentacled tail
and steaming beard,Copy !req
451. take up his fell, be-finned arm,Copy !req
452. his coral-tined trident screeches,Copy !req
453. banshee-like in the tempest,Copy !req
454. and plunges right through your gullet,Copy !req
455. bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more,Copy !req
456. but a blasted bloody film now,Copy !req
457. a nothing for the harpies
and the souls of dead sailorsCopy !req
458. to peck and claw and feed upon,Copy !req
459. only to be lapped up and swallowed
by the infinite watersCopy !req
460. of the dread emperor himself,Copy !req
461. forgotten to any man,Copy !req
462. to any time,Copy !req
463. forgotten to any god or devil,
forgotten even to the sea,Copy !req
464. for any stuff or part of Winslow,
even any scantling of your soul,Copy !req
465. is Winslow no more,Copy !req
466. but is now itself the sea.Copy !req
467. All right. Have it your way.Copy !req
468. I like your cooking.Copy !req
469. Son of a bitch.Copy !req
470. Queer way to wear your shoes.Copy !req
471. Just didn't wanna wake you, is all.Copy !req
472. It's a long night.Copy !req
473. And such.Copy !req
474. Hmm. The sun is over the yardarm.Copy !req
475. Best find some winks
afore the day draws farther on.Copy !req
476. Get back to your duties
or I'll give you a real keelhauling.Copy !req
477. You ain't even human no more.Copy !req
478. Workin' apart from folks so long.Copy !req
479. You're only tolerable when you're drunk.Copy !req
480. Get to work, says I.Copy !req
481. To work!Copy !req
482. Dance! Dance, Winslow! Dance!Copy !req
483. Aye.Copy !req
484. Get off me! Get off me!Copy !req
485. - Thomas.
- Aye.Copy !req
486. - It's Thomas.
- Aye.Copy !req
487. No, I'm Thomas.Copy !req
488. I'm Thomas. You're Ephraim.Copy !req
489. I lied.Copy !req
490. Well, I'll be scuppered.Copy !req
491. I'm Thomas. Tommy.Copy !req
492. Tommy? Tommy Winslow.Copy !req
493. No. Tom Howard.Copy !req
494. What's Winslow?Copy !req
495. - It's nothing.
- Nothing?Copy !req
496. Can I trust you?Copy !req
497. Don't be spilling any of your beans to me.Copy !req
498. I ain't interested.Copy !req
499. No. It wasn't that way, is all...
Just, see...Copy !req
500. I see what you're fixin' to do.
You get me all liquored up—Copy !req
501. Your guilty conscience
is ever as tiresome-borin'Copy !req
502. as any a guilty conscience.Copy !req
503. - Who—
- Worse. Worse.Copy !req
504. It was— it was a drive, see.Copy !req
505. It was a log drive,
and he— he's raggin' on me.Copy !req
506. No, I see what you're doing.Copy !req
507. Nothing.Copy !req
508. Look, Tom, don't be working
to twist words out of my head.Copy !req
509. I ain't.Copy !req
510. Um, I can't... I can't do it. I can't—Copy !req
511. Shut up your own rag box.Copy !req
512. I trust... I trust... I trust you.Copy !req
513. No.Copy !req
514. I... I trust you, Tom.Copy !req
515. You trust me?Copy !req
516. No, I don't trust you at all.Copy !req
517. And I had 'im handy and helpless.Copy !req
518. Alone.Copy !req
519. Too far downstream.Copy !req
520. And I... I wanted to do 'im in.
I admit I did.Copy !req
521. Seein' the back of his head.Copy !req
522. One swipe of the cant hook'd be all.Copy !req
523. Uh... It was...Copy !req
524. I... I didn't...Copy !req
525. I didn't... I did not.Copy !req
526. The day was long as hell on that drive.Copy !req
527. I was lead-tired. I admit it.Copy !req
528. But I saw him slippin', not me.Copy !req
529. We saw the jam comin'.Copy !req
530. I stood and he slipped.Copy !req
531. He shouted up.
And I... I just stood there.Copy !req
532. "Tom, you dog!"Copy !req
533. I just stood there, is all. Just...Copy !req
534. Just stood and watched 'im
get swallowed by them logs.Copy !req
535. And all I could think
when he was done was,Copy !req
536. "I... I could use me a smoke."Copy !req
537. That's it.Copy !req
538. So, I packed up his kit and fixin's,
as if they was my own and...Copy !req
539. Ephraim Winslow, well, now,
he got a spiffy clean slate.Copy !req
540. And Thomas Howard, well, he don't.Copy !req
541. No prospects.Copy !req
542. How else am I gonna find respectable work?Copy !req
543. Tom!Copy !req
544. Tom!Copy !req
545. Why'd y'spill your beans, Tommy?Copy !req
546. Why'd y'spill your beans?Copy !req
547. Why'd y'spill your beans?Copy !req
548. Don't leave me!Copy !req
549. You crazy son of a bitch!
You smashed up the lifeboat!Copy !req
550. You're abandoning your post!Copy !req
551. What're you gonna do?
Send for the lighthouse establishment?Copy !req
552. Certain, says I. I'll report ye,
I'll bring the inspector up.Copy !req
553. I'll report you! I know what you done.Copy !req
554. Who's reportin' who?
Ephraim Winslow? Or Thomas Howard?Copy !req
555. I know what you done.Copy !req
556. You killed your second.Copy !req
557. Your one-eyed junior man.Copy !req
558. I found him. In the lobster pot.Copy !req
559. Said he went mad?Copy !req
560. You made him mad with that charm!Copy !req
561. That scrimshaw trinket.Copy !req
562. But I broke it, see. See?Copy !req
563. Now I'm free. I'm free from your designs!Copy !req
564. And I got it all figured out,Copy !req
565. 'cept what's the secret mischief
your keepin' up there!Copy !req
566. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Tommy.Copy !req
567. Last night you made a confession
'twould make a saint swear.Copy !req
568. I don't have nothin' to confess,Copy !req
569. but you, spillin' your beans,
look what it's done to ye.Copy !req
570. It's made ye mad.Copy !req
571. And I knew ye was mad
when y'smashed up that lifeboat just now,Copy !req
572. a-chasing me with an ax,
tryin' to kill Ol' Tom.Copy !req
573. Don't ye trust me, Tommy?Copy !req
574. Better hand me
the dinner knife ye pocketed.Copy !req
575. Y'ain't safe with it.Copy !req
576. That's a good lad.Copy !req
577. Them's government property.Copy !req
578. Deducted from your pay.Copy !req
579. Look at your shiverin'.Copy !req
580. You're so mad, y'know not up from down.Copy !req
581. How long have we been on this rock?Copy !req
582. Five weeks?Copy !req
583. Two days?Copy !req
584. Where are we?Copy !req
585. Help me to recollect,
who are you again, Tommy?Copy !req
586. I'm probably
a figment of your imagination.Copy !req
587. This rock is a figment
of your imagination too.Copy !req
588. You're probably wand'rin' through a grove
of tag alders up north in Canady,Copy !req
589. like a frostbitten maniac,
talkin' to yourself,Copy !req
590. knee-deep in snow.Copy !req
591. I could use me a smoke.Copy !req
592. We're outta drink.Copy !req
593. Ooh!Copy !req
594. Monkey pump!Copy !req
595. This place is a sty.Copy !req
596. Mornin' to you too.Copy !req
597. I wish I could go for a walk.Copy !req
598. Be my guest. You'll get drowned.Copy !req
599. Fiery pit.Copy !req
600. Ain't there no justice left in this world?Copy !req
601. Thankee.Copy !req
602. What's wrong with your hand?Copy !req
603. The other one.Copy !req
604. Ye hear o' tetanus?Copy !req
605. - Tet-a-nus?
- Hmm. Yeah.Copy !req
606. It started as a sliver of a cut, is all—Copy !req
607. I said I heard of it.Copy !req
608. from the forestaysail
when we shoved off...Copy !req
609. - Don't you ever shut up?
- ... but come a fortnight,Copy !req
610. - the bosun was a-shakin'.
- Stop.Copy !req
611. His jaw locked tighter than an anchor—Copy !req
612. Shut your gum, goddamn it!
I can't hear no more!Copy !req
613. What were it ye accused me of?Copy !req
614. Y'already told me y'had me figgerd.Copy !req
615. I'm tired of your damned-fool yams
and your Cap'n Ahab horseshit.Copy !req
616. You sound like a goddamned parody.Copy !req
617. Givin' and nagging orders
like a spinster schoolmarm,Copy !req
618. and all the while turning this stationCopy !req
619. - to the Devil's own rum hole.
- You're makin' a fool of yourself.Copy !req
620. Well, it's all horseshit...Copy !req
621. your leg, and your sea life, all of it!Copy !req
622. And if I hear one more word of horseshit
coming out of your foul, rotten-toothed,Copy !req
623. - smelly old mouth—
- Ye... Damn ye—Copy !req
624. Shut up your gum, goddamn it!
I ain't finished yet!Copy !req
625. You think
you're so goddamned high and mightyCopy !req
626. just 'cause
you're a goddamned lighthouse keeper?Copy !req
627. Well, you ain't a captain of no ship
and you never was!Copy !req
628. You ain't no general, you ain't no copper,Copy !req
629. you ain't the president,
and you ain't my father!Copy !req
630. And I'm sick of you actin' like you is!Copy !req
631. I'm sick of your laughing, your snoring,
and your goddamned farts.Copy !req
632. Your goddamned...Copy !req
633. Goddamn your farts!Copy !req
634. You smell like piss,
you smell like jism,Copy !req
635. like rotten dick, like curdled foreskin,Copy !req
636. like hot onions fucked
a farmyard shit house.Copy !req
637. And I'm sick of your smell.
I'm sick of it!Copy !req
638. I'm sick of it, you goddamned drunk.Copy !req
639. You goddamned no-account,
son-of-a-bitch-bastard liar!Copy !req
640. That's what you are!Copy !req
641. You're a goddamned drunken,
horse-shitting, short, shit liar.Copy !req
642. A liar!Copy !req
643. Ye have a way with words, Tommy.Copy !req
644. Damn you!Copy !req
645. You're relieved of your duties.Copy !req
646. No need to tell me, old-timer.Copy !req
647. "Assistant slept late."Copy !req
648. "Work below standard."Copy !req
649. "Attitude hostile."Copy !req
650. "Assistant missing."Copy !req
651. "Given to habitual self-abuse
in the supply shed."Copy !req
652. "Drunk on duty!"Copy !req
653. "Assault!"Copy !req
654. "Theft!"Copy !req
655. "Recommend severance without pay."Copy !req
656. Severance without pay?Copy !req
657. Are you trying to ruin me?Copy !req
658. I'm a hard worker.Copy !req
659. I am. I work as hard as any man.Copy !req
660. - Ye lie, Thomas.
- Stop it!Copy !req
661. Ye lie to yourself,
but y'ain't have the sauce to see it.Copy !req
662. Please...Copy !req
663. Just let me into the light, old man.Copy !req
664. I've learned so much from you.
Just let me show you. Another chance.Copy !req
665. Forgive and forget, I says.Copy !req
666. Just let me into that lantern, is all.Copy !req
667. Don't make me beg... or I'll beg.Copy !req
668. I'll beg if that's what you want.
I'll beg.Copy !req
669. Please.Copy !req
670. Please. Please! Please!Copy !req
671. Stand down.Copy !req
672. You selfish bastard!
Keepin' it all to yourself.Copy !req
673. You left your old lady,
your children, for what? For what?Copy !req
674. Look at ye, handsome lad,
with eyes bright as a lady.Copy !req
675. Come to this rock playin' the tough.Copy !req
676. Ye make me laugh with your false grum.Copy !req
677. Ye pretended to some mystery
in your quietudes,Copy !req
678. but there ain't no mystery.Copy !req
679. You're an open book. A picture, says I.Copy !req
680. A painted actress
screaming in the footlights,Copy !req
681. a bitch what wants to be coveted
for nothin' but being born,Copy !req
682. cryin' 'bout the silver spoon
what should've been yours.Copy !req
683. Now look at ye cryin'.Copy !req
684. Boo. Boo.Copy !req
685. What you gonna do?Copy !req
686. Will ye kill me? Will ye?Copy !req
687. Will y'kill me like y'done that gull?Copy !req
688. - I didn't...
- Liar! Y'murdering dog!Copy !req
689. 'Twas ye what changed the wind on us.
'Twas ye what damned us, dog. 'Twas ye!Copy !req
690. Will y'do what y'wish
y'done to Ol' Winslow?Copy !req
691. Will ye best me then?
For Winslow were right.Copy !req
692. Thomas, you're a dog. A filthy dog! A dog!Copy !req
693. Git down!Copy !req
694. Let go of me!Copy !req
695. You're killing me!Copy !req
696. Bark.Copy !req
697. Bark, boy.Copy !req
698. Bark, laddie.Copy !req
699. Bark.Copy !req
700. Woof.Copy !req
701. Ain't ye never been to sea before?Copy !req
702. Bark, I says. Bark!Copy !req
703. Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!Copy !req
704. Bark, laddie!Copy !req
705. Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!Copy !req
706. - Now, there's a good boy.
- Ruff!Copy !req
707. - There's a good dog.
- Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!Copy !req
708. Ruff!Copy !req
709. Now roll over.Copy !req
710. Come on.Copy !req
711. Come on.Copy !req
712. Git!Copy !req
713. Come on.Copy !req
714. Get up here.Copy !req
715. Good boy. Good boy.Copy !req
716. Now you get in there, where you belong.Copy !req
717. You do as I say, dog.Copy !req
718. There's my good lad.Copy !req
719. Ye wish to see
what's in the lantern?Copy !req
720. So did me last assistant.Copy !req
721. Shut up, old dog!Copy !req
722. Polish your brasswork.Copy !req
723. O what Protean forms swim up
from men's minds,Copy !req
724. and melt in hot Promethean plunder,Copy !req
725. scorching eyes,
with divine shames and horror...Copy !req
726. And casting them down to Davy Jones.Copy !req
727. The others, still blind,Copy !req
728. yet in it seeCopy !req
729. all the divine gracesCopy !req
730. and to Fiddler's Green sent,Copy !req
731. where no man is suffered to want or toil,
but is...Copy !req
732. ancient...Copy !req
733. mutable and unchanging...Copy !req
734. as the she who girdles 'round the globe.Copy !req
735. Them's truth.Copy !req
736. You'll be punished.Copy !req
737. The light belongs to me!Copy !req
738. Should pale death with treble dread
make the ocean caves our bed,Copy !req
739. God who hear'st the surges roll,
deign to save the suppliant soul.Copy !req