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A naval officer attached to the yard stood near me at one time during the afternoon, and I heard him remark to a visitor who had accompanied him on board: "You will find an object lesson in this scene. These young men working here at the hardest kind of manual labor, buckling down cheerfully to dirty jobs, were, a few days ago, living in luxury in the best homes in New York City.
The mate and some men forward were trying to haul in the lower studding-sail, which had blown over the spritsail yard-arm and round the guys, while the topmast-studding-sail boom, after buckling up and springing out again like a piece of whalebone, broke off at the boom-iron.
He carried out his bluff, unbuckling and buckling one of the straps, then mildly straightened up and faced the man. "Pedro," he began, tensely, "you haf know José, Juan, Manuel, Francisco, Carlotta all haf know thot eet is only one t'ief in all thees place! And thot man thot t'ief is Pedro Garcia!" Pedro grunted. "Where you haf steal thot horse?" he repeated, without show of anger.
The squire and page, of Lord Lacy, after buckling on their arms, were about to sally out to chastise these intruders, when the old host, after looking out at a private casement, contrived for reconnoitring his visitors, entreated them, with great signs of terror, to be quiet, if they did not mean that all in the house should be murdered.
Few things are more irritating to a beginner than to find that his binding will not hold on his boot. Over and over again in a run down his Ski comes off and he delays his party by having to stop and put it on again. Still it will not hold even though he ties it on with string. Then he realizes that his boot is buckling.
The hostess threatened us with the vengeance of the police, should we attempt to leave our authorised herberge, to which we replied by tossing the beer into the kennel, buckling on our knapsacks, and stalking into the street. We heard no more of our Bohemian herberge and its landlady.
It is a fine ideal for any people; but before buckling to it, one would wish to have a clear understanding as to what this "duty" is. The German idea of it would appear to be: "blind obedience to everything in buttons." It is the antithesis of the Anglo-Saxon scheme; but as both the Anglo-Saxon and the Teuton are prospering, there must be good in both methods.
Though the buckling plates still thundered, though the floor under their feet still pitched at crazy angles, there was a "feel" in the fire-room that ribs and beams and rivets were not so near the breaking-point. Neville came to the end of the passage. "The hurricane's blowing itself to death," he shouted. "Stick to it, boys, for an hour longer; the second watch can reach us by then."
The General was already among them. Carlos and the other officers came running, buckling their sword-belts, rubbing their eyes. "Where are they?" all were asking in excited whispers. "Who saw them? Is it another nightmare of Pepe's?" "No! no!" murmured Rita. "I saw them, I tell you! I saw their faces in the moonlight. I went to get some water. They are climbing up the cliff.
"How touchingly simple!" continued the junior reporter, buckling up his sleeves to enjoy himself, and feeling himself born to be a "Saturday Reviewer." "Mark the local colour, the wool and the dirty water of the Dee without doubt a name applied to one of their bigger ditches down there. Mark also the over-fervency of the touching line, "'And loudly mourned their woolly dams,
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