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End for end

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one end for the other; in reversed order.

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While still warm, the oil, like hot punch, is received into the six-barrel casks; and while, perhaps, the ship is pitching and rolling this way and that in the midnight sea, the enormous casks are slewed round and headed over, end for end, and sometimes perilously scoot across the slippery deck, like so many land slides, till at last man-handled and stayed in their course; and all round the hoops, rap, rap, go as many hammers as can play upon them, for now, ex officio, every sailor is a cooper.
At the same time, the schooner began to turn upon her heel, spinning slowly, end for end, across the current.
These caught our clumsy logs and whirled them end for end, back and forth and around.
 
 
 
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