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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: the artificers were variously employed in fishing and reading;
others were busy in drying and adjusting their wet clothes,
and one or two amused their companions with the violin and
German flute.
About seven in the evening the signal bell for landing on
the rock was again rung, when every man was at his quarters.
In this service it was thought more appropriate to use the
bell than to PIPE to quarters, as the use of this instrument
is less known to the mechanic than the sound of the bell. The
landing, as in the morning, was at the eastern harbour.
During this tide the seaweed was pretty well cleared from the
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