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There'd be nothing, except an occasional albatross, to distract his attention." "Those South American republics," said Miss Pettigrew, "are continually having revolutions." Miss Pettigrew is certainly a very clever woman. Her suggestion was the first thing which caused Lalage to waver.
"To git sailors to come to yer house on commission," retorted Hennesey, hotly; "an' fur fear I'd be makin' too much, ye sind me to a bloody coaster, whose min are in the union, while you go down to the Albatross, in from deep water." "I got no wan from the Albatross." "No fault o' yours or mine. I'd ha' got 'em." "None o' yer shlack." "To hill wi' ye." "Ye're discharged.
The albatross will follow a ship at sea, sailing round and round, in a brisk breeze, on unbending wing, only now and then righting itself with a single flap of its great pinions. It literally rides upon the storm.
Several of his messmates, who had a superstitious dread of catching an albatross, shouted out to him not to make the attempt, declaring that he would bring ill-luck to himself, or perhaps to the ship. Though not free from superstition himself, he persevered from very bravado. "I am not to be frightened by any such notions," he answered scornfully.
Perhaps the cloud-bank recalled to him the waterspout in which the "Albatross" had so nearly been destroyed, or the mighty cyclone from which he had escaped only as if by a miracle above the Antarctic Sea. It is true that the forces of Nature which had been too strong for the "Albatross," might easily be evaded by this lighter and more versatile machine.
"Not much need for the last, boy, I hope and believe," answered he, "but it's best perhaps as you should know at once so, without any further palaver, the Albatross, the pirate-brig, is inside the reef, and is lying at anchor at this very moment in the bay where you was so near losing the number of your mess." "The Albatross!" exclaimed I; "nonsense, Bob; surely you must be mistaken!
"The catching of a shark; the shooting of an albatross; a sailor tumbling down the hatchway and breaking his head; a cadet getting drunk and swearing at the captain," are incidents to which not even the highest literary power can impart the charm of novelty in the eyes of the readers of a seafaring nation.
Valentine Jernam's younger brother, George, had journeyed to and fro on the high seas five years since the murder of the brave and generous- hearted sea-captain. Things had gone well with Captain George Jernam, and in the whole of the trading navy there were few richer men than the owner of the 'Pizarro', 'Stormy Petrel', and 'Albatross'. With these three vessels constantly afloat.
"'There is not much to fear of that, her mate answered. 'A lucky wave has brought them to shore, but it will take a good many lucky waves to bring a ship to carry them home. "Father Albatross was right; but his mate saw the strangers sooner than she expected.
He thus controlled the aeronef in every way, horizontally and vertically, and it is almost impossible to conceive with what speed and precision the "Albatross" answered to his orders. She seemed a living being, of which he was the soul. "A whale! A whale!" shouted Tom Turner, as the back of a cetacean emerged from the surface about four cable-lengths in front of the "Albatross."
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