Did You Hear That Noise?

It was the middle watch, a fair moonlight. The seamen were standing in a cordon extending from one the fresh water butts in the waist to the scuttle butt near the taffrail. In this manner, they passed the buckets to fill the scuttles and did not speak or rustle their feet. There's somebody down there in the after hold that has not yet been seen on deck. And i suspect our old mogul knows something of it too. I've sharp ears ay you are the chap ain't ye?