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By this time the watch below had tumbled up, and all hands were now on deck, staring aloft or over the side, sniffing, spitting, muttering, and wondering what had happened. "There's that bloomin' compreesant come again!" exclaimed a hoarse voice; and, sure enough, a light similar to the one that had hung at the crossjack yard-arm now floated upon the end of the upper maintopsail-yard.
"Yes," said Jack, a bit shortly. But that was common news. "Well, there's an island about fifty miles from here," the black went on, "and there's somethin' bloomin' stringe about it;" for so he pronounced "strange." "Strange what do you mean?" asked Walter. "Just what I says, boss, stringe. If you was to say it'd be worth arf a crown now "
"Oh, 'ell," he shouted indignantly, "I might a' died for all you bloomin' well cared." "Why, wot's up?" "Up? I fell into a bloomin' drift." "Oh, an' wot the 'ell d'you do that for?" "Do it for. Why, why...!" The crowd about him grinned. "P'raps 'e saw 'is ole woman comin 'along the road." "That's the way 'e 'as 'is weekly wash." "He was playin' snowballs with 'is bloomin' self."
My word, the grub! Blow me for a bleedin' Dutchman, but I couldn't go the grub; y'know. An' a man's a man, with a man's 'eart an' feelin's, even if 'e's nowt but a sailor, ain't he now? You're bloody well right 'e is. But I took a fall out of a submarine before I quit. 'Ave you seen 'em the little black chaps wot goes down an' comes up like bloomin' little poppusses?"
"Gentlemen," said the captain, after a pause, and with very much the air of a chairman opening a board meeting, "we're sold." Huish broke out in laughter. "Well, if this ain't the 'ighest old rig!" he cried. "And Dyvis 'ere, who thought he had got up so bloomin' early in the mornin'! We've stolen a cargo of spring water! O, my crikey!" and he squirmed with mirth.
So I thought the old party came up, and the nearer he came, the less I took to him. But I had passed my word, you see. 'Wot is this bloomin' drivel? interrupted the clerk. 'It's like the rot there is in tracts. 'It's a story; I used to tell them to the kids at home, said Herrick. 'If it bores you, I'll drop it. 'O, cut along! returned the sick man, irritably. 'It's better than nothing.
All I knows was I wakes up in the mornin' with a head like a sandstorm, no piastres left, and me chest as sore as hell wid this pretty picture on it me, a bloomin' Aussie born and bred with the 'b 'art gorn Care-o chuum' badge on me manly chest them wee lads whose mummies didn't know they was out. I tell yer I wasn't sweet the rest er that day.
Reminding him of the order to "act so as to deceive," he unfolded a plan which was favorably considered. "Those Boshies thought they was bloomin' clever to twig we was English," he told the others of B Company; "but you wait till the lime-light's on me. I'll puzzle 'em."
But there's minerals, 'eaps of minerals, an' we'd all be rich men an' it wasn't for the bloomin' doctor." No channel to the shore having appeared, they were now making their way along the edge of the open water. Suddenly the old engineer started: "Did you see 'im?" he whispered. "What? Where?" Dave stared at the old man, thinking he had suddenly lost his head. "H'it was a man.
"An' there's our blessed Cap'n, ma'am," went on Bill, warming under the girl's happiness. "Gennelmun if ther' ever wuz. Sees me, he do, a roarin', ragged, bacca-chawin' ol' swab, an' I ses to him, 'Giv 's a job, an' he up an' makes me a bloomin' orf'cer! Me, as never knowed nuthin' 'cept drawin' me grog rations twice. Missy, there's a man for ye.
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