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The stranger was a somewhat short and thick-set, but bright and active-looking boy, with a pair of very keen, greenish-gray eyes. But, after all, the first word he spoke to poor Dick was, "Hullo, clothes! Where are you going with all that boy?" "I knowed it, I knowed it!" groaned Dick. But he answered as sharply as he knew how, "I's goin' a-fishin'. Any ob youah business?"
Among the first who stepped on board was a fine, active-looking young man, though, to the nautical eye, he had not much the look of a sailor. "Where have you served before, my man?" asked Mr Cammock, the first lieutenant; "and what do you know of seamanship?" "I have served nowhere, please you, sir," was the answer, "but I am ready to learn.
As he approached us, I thought he looked very demure-like, which was not his usual; for he was as cheerful, active-looking a little man as you could possibly see. "Well, Hughie," said I to him, holding out my hand for the papers, "ye look dull like to-day; I hope ye have no bad news?" "I would hope not, Mr Goldie," said he; and, giving me the paper, walked on.
His crew consisted of seven hands strong, active-looking fellows, many more than the craft required to work her. This circumstance at once made me suspect that she was not over honest. "Faith," thought I to myself, "this isn't the best place in the world for a revenue officer to find himself in." But it was now too late to get oh shore again.
The mate, directly after, came down without having found a man to his taste. I told him that one had offered a strongly-built, active-looking, intelligent man, just cut out for a sailor, though, as I said, I did not think he was one. Mr Marsh, the mate, listened to my account, and as he stepped into the boat, seemed to be looking for the stranger.
Philip felt some bitter complacency in the promising stupidity of this well-made, active-looking boy; but made polite by his own extreme sensitiveness, as well as by his desire to conciliate, he checked his inclination to laugh, and said quietly, "I've done with the grammar; I don't learn that any more." "Then you won't have the same lessons as I shall?" said Tom, with a sense of disappointment.
Only a well-set-up, long-limbed, active-looking man of forty talking with two ladies near a window remarked aloud, with an unexpected depth of feeling: “Eighteen stone, I should say, and not five foot six. Poor fellow! It’s terrible—terrible.”
His buckskin leggings, which descended to his stirrups, were splashed with mud, for the day had been rainy. He was well mounted on a light-built, active-looking chestnut horse. The indispensable saddle-bags, containing his Greek Testament, Bible, and Wesley's Hymns, and a few personal necessaries, were secured across the saddle.
The crew were small and swarthy, but active-looking fellows, most of them wearing long red caps on their heads, and blue or pink-striped shirts, with knives stuck in their girdles. They jabbered and shouted tremendously as they got under weigh. Tony and Houlston stood on the poop bidding us farewell. "We shall meet, Harry! we shall meet!" Tony cried out.
The master endeavoured to prevent them from speaking; but the lieutenant telling them to say what they wished, they at once begged that they might be allowed to join the frigate. They were both fine active-looking lads, and seemed cut out to make first-rate seamen. The lieutenant eyed them with approbation. "You will do, my lads," he observed.
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