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"You can soak me for a squilgee if that weren't neat," he chuckled, and then lifting his hands to his cheeks, he roared out something through the port.

After which an extraordinary implement—a sort of leathern hoe called a"squilgee"—is used to scrape and squeeze the last dribblings of water from the planks.

Concerning this "squilgee," I think something of drawing up a memoir, and reading it before the Academy of Arts and Sciences.