“Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow!” His right hand, meantime, describing stately circles⁠—for it was representing a forty-foot wheel.

“Let her go back on the labboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ch-chow-chow!” The left hand began to describe circles.

“Stop the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Stop the labboard! Come ahead on the stabboard! Stop her! Let your outside turn over slow! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ow-ow! Get out that head-line! Lively now! Come⁠—out with your spring-line⁠—what’re you about there! Take a turn round that stump with the bight of it! Stand by that stage, now⁠—let her go! Done with the engines, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling! Sh’t! S’h’t! Sh’t! ” (trying the gauge-cocks).