It was about nine o'clock in the forenoon , when I was busily employed with the jack-plane on one of the sweeps . Tibeats was standing by the work-bench , fitting a handle into the chisel , with which he had been engaged previously in cutting the thread of the screw .
Было около девяти часов утра, когда я был занят работой с самолетом на одной из тралений. Тайбитс стоял у верстака и втыкал ручку в долото, которым раньше нарезал резьбу винта.
