{"id":"01KG8AKSV0XP25RX5HNBCWS070","cid":"bafkreihrgwsglo5etob6u3dwauaqesvs2a3f2l3vwu5piql366yudtam7u","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":1372,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:14.838Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","start_line":1310,"text":"CHAPTER VII.\r\nHE GETS TO SEA AND FEELS VERY BAD\r\n\r\n\r\nEvery thing at last being in readiness, the pilot came on board, and\r\nall hands were called to up anchor. While I worked at my bar, I could\r\nnot help observing how haggard the men looked, and how much they\r\nsuffered from this violent exercise, after the terrific dissipation in\r\nwhich they had been indulging ashore. But I soon learnt that sailors\r\nbreathe nothing about such things, but strive their best to appear all\r\nalive and hearty, though it comes very hard for many of them.\r\n\r\nThe anchor being secured, a steam tug-boat with a strong name, the\r\nHercules, took hold of us; and away we went past the long line of\r\nshipping, and wharves, and warehouses; and rounded the green south\r\npoint of the island where the Battery is, and passed Governor’s Island,\r\nand pointed right out for the Narrows.\r\n\r\nMy heart was like lead, and I felt bad enough, Heaven knows; but then,\r\nthere was plenty of work to be done, which kept my thoughts from\r\nbecoming too much for me.\r\n\r\nAnd I tried to think all the time, that I was going to England, and\r\nthat, before many months, I should have actually been there and home\r\nagain, telling my adventures to my brothers and sisters; and with what\r\ndelight they would listen, and how they would look up to me then, and\r\nreverence my sayings; and how that even my elder brother would be\r\nforced to treat me with great consideration, as having crossed the\r\nAtlantic Ocean, which he had never done, and there was no probability\r\nhe ever would.\r\n\r\nWith such thoughts as these I endeavored to shake off my\r\nheavy-heartedness; but it would not do at all; for this was only the\r\nfirst day of the voyage, and many weeks, nay, several whole months must\r\nelapse before the voyage was ended; and who could tell what might\r\nhappen to me; for when I looked up at the high, giddy masts, and\r\nthought how often I must be going up and down them, I thought sure\r\nenough that some luckless day or other, I would certainly fall\r\noverboard and be drowned. And then, I thought of lying down at the\r\nbottom of the sea, stark alone, with the great waves rolling over me,\r\nand no one in the wide world knowing that I was there. And I thought\r\nhow much better and sweeter it must be, to be buried under the pleasant\r\nhedge that bounded the sunny south side of our village grave-yard,\r\nwhere every Sunday I had used to walk after church in the afternoon;\r\nand I almost wished I was there now; yes, dead and buried in that\r\nchurchyard. All the time my eyes were filled with tears, and I kept\r\nholding my breath, to choke down the sobs, for indeed I could not help\r\nfeeling as I did, and no doubt any boy in the world would have felt\r\njust as I did then.\r\n\r\nAs the steamer carried us further and further down the bay, and we\r\npassed ships lying at anchor, with men gazing at us and waving their\r\nhats; and small boats with ladies in them waving their handkerchiefs;\r\nand passed the green shore of Staten Island, and caught sight of so\r\nmany beautiful cottages all overrun with vines, and planted on the\r\nbeautiful fresh mossy hill-sides; oh! then I would have given any thing\r\nif instead of sailing _out of_ the bay, we were only coming _into_ it;\r\nif we had crossed the ocean and returned, gone over and come back; and\r\nmy heart leaped up in me like something alive when I thought of really\r\nentering that bay at the end of the voyage. But that was so far\r\ndistant, that it seemed it could never be. No, never, never more would\r\nI see New York again.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJNGW6WF5ZHDAHFHEMEZM","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1GP71YDJ60P8SRH97MF","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKSV4WBRK3WDMMQ26517Y","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:16.224Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:24.305Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}