Encara no tenim significats per a "say the coxswain".
1Blood, says the coxswain, looking up, and the match goes out.
2Something about the ship's papers, says the coxswain, very anxious.
3The shanty cannot have drifted far, and perhaps the family are safe by this time, says the coxswain, hopefully.
4"They are all gone, sir," said the coxswain in a humble tone.
5True enough, says the coxswain.
6'Then we'll go,' said the coxswain, and he rang the bell and summoned a crew.
7"We have come to row you up to my father's," said the coxswain.
8"I think we had better not," said the coxswain.
9"No, sir, not dead, I hope," said the coxswain.
10"Don't you be such a fool, Tom," said the coxswain to one of the men.
11"Ay," said the coxswain in a deep voice, "an' it's a high spring tide too.
12"The mainmast has not been cut adrift; it will be a dangerous task," said the coxswain.
13"Aye, aye, sir," said the coxswain, swathing it in his jacket and tucking it under his arm.
14"He's not even a U. P. Senior now," said the coxswain, from the stern of the barge.
15"They're aground, Mr. Shuffles," said the coxswain.
16"She did, anyway," said the coxswain; "for Reub himself called down the news to me in so many words."