canvas out of my hands
discount ugg boots and in an instant undoing what I had gained by ten minutes of severest
struggle. At eight o'clock I had succeeded only in putting the second reef into the foresail.
At eleven o'clock I was no further along. Blood dripped from every finger-end, while the
nails were broken to the quick. From pain and sheer exhaustion, I wept in the darkness,
secretly, so that Maud
ugg boots discount outlet should not know. Then, in desperation, I abandoned the attempt to
reef the mainsail, and resolved to try the experiment of heaving to under the close-reefed
foresail. Three hours more were required to gasket the mainsail and jib, and at two in the
morning, nearly dead, the life almost buffeted and worked out of me, I had barely sufficient
consciousness to
discount uggs for women know the experiment was a success. I was famished, but Maud tried
vainly to get me to eat. So sleepily helpless was I that she was compelled to hold me in my
chair to prevent my being flung to the floor by the violent pitching of the schooner. Of
the passage from the galley to the cabin I knew nothing. In fact,
cheap uggs online I was aware of nothing till
I awoke in my bunk, with my boots off. It was dark. I was stiff and lame, and cried out with
pain when the bedclothes touched my poor finger-ends. Morning had evidently not come, so I
closed my eyes and went to sleep again. I did not know it, but I had slept the
discount uggs for women clock around
and it was night again. Once more I awoke, troubled because I could sleep no better. I
struck a match and looked at my watch. It marked midnight. And I had not left the deck until
three! I should have been puzzled had I not guessed the solution. No wonder I was sleeping
brokenly. I had slept twenty-one hours.
ugg boots discount uk I listened for a while to the behavior of the Ghost,
to the pounding of the seas and the muffled roar of the wind on deck and then turned over on
my side and slept peacefully until morning. When I arose at seven I saw no sign of Maud,
