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Thread #62576 Message #1012744
Posted By: Jeri
04-Sep-03 - 01:35 PM
Thread Name: Gold.Vanity. Can you REALLY sink a ship?
Subject: RE: Gold.Vanity. Can you REALLY sink a ship?
There is one MAJOR assumption which may be unfounded: the cabin boy bored the holes from the outside of the ship.
There is some indication that he might have done it from the inside.
"While some of them were playing cards and some were shaking dice
He saw their dark eyes glitter as the water it rolled in," from one version. I've also seen versions that seem to indicate he got BACK into the water to swim back ("then down upon his breast").