good on nerve? Though
I'll admit that my appetite for smoking won't be good when I'm near this
shed. How long is the stuff going to stay here? That is, if some idiot
doesn't play with matches in that shed."
"I expect it will about all be used, after the Navy officer gets on the
scene, and drills us in using torpedoes," Captain Benson answered. "It
isn't intended to keep that sort of stuff stored here all the time."
"Oh! Then I reckon I won't toss my job into the harbor," grinned the
machinist. "How soon are you going to want me?"
"You can go aboard the 'Hastings' at once," replied Skipper Jack. "It
won't do any harm to have the machinery of the new boat looked over with
a most critical eye."
"Any gun-cotton, rack-a-rock wool or dynamite silk stored on board the
new craft?" inquired Williamson, with a look of mock anxiety.
"Nothing more dangerous than gasoline," Captain Jack smiled.
"Oh, I don't mind that stuff,". chuckled the machinist. "I want a
smoke. That's why I'm particular about not going to work near any stuff
that has such a big idea of itself that it swells up every time a match
or a lighted pipe comes around.
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