Meanwhile the captain, who enjoyed the scheme as well as any of us, split open a couple of old tackle-blocks, and, getting out the trucks, proceeded to set them on the ends of two stout axles cut from an old ice-pole.

These axles were then nailed fast to the bottom of the chest.

The gun-carriage was then complete, and could be rolled anywhere on deck with ease.
"Decidedly neat!" exclaimed Capt.

Mazard, surveying it with a grin of self-approbation.
"What say to that, Trull ?" cried Raed.
The old man-of-war's-man had been watching the progress of the invention with an occasional tug at his waistband.
"Yes; how's that in your eye ?" exclaimed the captain.

"You're a military character.