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Something old, something new, something borrowed – and, naturally, something emblazoned with the bright red slogan “buttock futtock”.

For a brief space his body hung suspended on the inside of the futtock shrouds, then it slowly over-balanced and crashed with a heavy thud across a gun carriage on the deck below.

Greenhorns generally scramble through those instead of going over the futtock shrouds.

However, I stuck to it, followed Drake over the futtock shrouds, where for a space I felt like a fly on a ceiling, and at length gained the foretop.

Slowly he climbed till, urged on by the shouts of the fiendish crew, he reached the futtock shrouds.