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Now, we're easy-going and, I dare say, fools; but not darn, darn fools. It's a mistake to think we wouldn't see a thing big's a mountain, and that you could cheat us the way that handsome, fine-mannered, dignified villain Loo-ee-gy thinks he can. So we're going to put in his place a nice woman who is, in part, our friend, and will care to see that we're dealt fairly with.
"Did you ever see anything else?" I asked. "Oh, yes, my lad, I've seen a good many things that people wouldn't believe. I remember once seeing a curious thing off the muddy Malay coast, a long way north of Malacca, where you have mangrove swamps right down about the mouths of the rivers, places where the crocodiles go in and out." "I say, how big's a crocodile?" said Tom sharply.
"Why, I didn't think about you, Bob," I said. "That's just like you, Sep Duncan. But I say, what a game!" "I don't see much game in it," I said sadly. "Big's father is in the lugger, and mine " "In the cutter trying to catch him," cried Bob. "Oh, I say, what a game!" "Look here!" said Bigley in a deep husky voice, "come down along with me, Sep, and take hold of my arm.
They hailed and couldn't git no answer. They knew she was a furriner by her build, and she must 'a' been a long time at sea by her havin' barnacles on her nigh as big's a mack'rel kit. Finally, they pulled up to her fore chains and clum aboard of her.
Has a big thug with him all the time, and takes exception to people gettin' nosy. Most folks got snubbed and drew back, so to speak. Jim Hardin he's a fisherman hereabouts took exception and got beaten up. Hardin's not easy to lick. After that, folks stopped speakin' to Merlin and company." "How big's the company?" Steve asked. "Merlin, bodyguard, a little squirt with no chin, and three others.
"If you say that again I shall hit you," cried Bob fiercely. "Oh, very well, I won't say it," I said; "but I say, wouldn't you wear a suit of old Big's?" I said it quite seriously, but he regularly glared and seemed as if he were going to fly at me, but he neither moved nor spoke. "Never mind about your clothes," I said. "Big's sure to be over before long.
Sandy had on his sirtoo an' his lum gin this time, an' he was gaen about makin' a terriple noise, blawin' his nose in his Sabbath hankie, an' lookin', haud your tongue, juist as big's bull beef. He gaed into the washin'-hoose to cowshin the laddies, for they were makin' a terriple din.
"And how big's thy ship to be, then, eh, Garge?" "The biggest that I can get," answered George; "the bigger the better, because she will carry the more men, the more guns and the more gold. I should have liked the Bonaventure, if I could have got her, for I'm used to her, and she is just the right size. But Mr Marshall will have nothing to do with me and my scheme."
Something big's goin' to happen, and I pity the natives if they rouse up that orang-outang Peters. You said I would disturb the flowin' of Doctor Bainbridge's retorick by goin' out and in. But I won't go out. I just won't go out; if the Boss don't like it he can lump it I can quit.
Now, Bob, get the baskets and nets." I ran down a few yards, and was only just in time to snatch mine up before a wave washed right over the spot where they had lain. For the tide was coming in rapidly, and, as I have shown, we were on a part of the shore that was only bare about once a month. "All right," cried Bob. "I've got mine and old Big's." "Where are Big's shoes?" I said.
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