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Are there men on the wreck? THE LOOK-OUT
- I can just see three!
PEER
- Quick! lower the stern boat-
THE CAPTAIN
- She'd fill ere she floated.
- [Goes forward.]
PEER
- Who can think of that now?
- [To some of the crew.]
- If you're men, to the rescue!
- What the devil, if you should get a bit of a ducking!
THE BOATSWAIN
- It's out of the question in such a sea.
PEER
- They are screaming again! There's a lull in the wind.-
- Cook, will you risk it? Quick! I will pay-
THE COOK
- No, not if you offered me twenty pounds-sterling-
PEER
- You hounds! You chicken-hearts! Can you forget
- these are men that have goodwives and children at home?
- There they're sitting and waiting-
THE BOATSWA
