STANDING RIGGING.
REEFED SAILS.
"Then, it is a clergyman," added Hop, trying to be funny.
"The nautical meaning of D. D. in the navy is 'Dead. Discharged.'"
"What is the spar at the head?"
"The bowsprit, marked h."
"Right you are, Ash. What is i, which the Goldwing does not wear just now?"
"The flying jib-boom," shouted Archie, who had been very unfortunate in his answers so far.
"Out on a fly! Jib-boom is enough for this spar. Only two more: what is b b b, the lower one?"