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An' now, Heller, do tell these poor, benighted, lazy loons that I must have me coky-nuts fresh, an' as great a variety av fish as can be procured in these wathers. The chap that preshumes to bring me an owld coky-nut I'll curse his basket an' his shtore." After a brief missionary effort, Heller reported that the whole population of the island, barring a few obstinate seniors, had been baptized.
"Well, the climate is deloightful. Let us hope that the coky-nuts will agree wid us, an' that the natives won't urge upon us the blissins av martyrdom. Professor, what may be the spiritual condition av things hereaway, do ye think?" "A clear field not a convert yet. Your predecessor, who went through the office of being eaten a year ago, had not even learned the language."
"Got what, m'lad?" said Small. "The coky-nuts," said Billy, smiling. "'Tis his natur' to." "Don't talk conundydrums, m'lad," said the boatswain. "If so be as you've got the coky-nuts, let's have 'em, for I'd like a go at one 'mazingly." "Why, I aren't got the nuts, gentlemen," said Billy; "but, as I said afore, it is his natur' to." "Whose, Billy?" said Mark. "Why, the monkey's, sir. Here, Jack."
But as the hostile fleet still held command of the sea and hovered menacingly off the coast, keeping the faithful under arms and preventing them from fishing, the good Father decided that peace was necessary. "This livin' on coky-nuts and bread-fruits intirely is bad for the stomich, Heller," he observed. "We must come to an ondherstandin' wid these raskilly infidels an' idolaters.
"These here's coky-nuts, as you knows very well; so let's pick out a good tree, and up you goes and gets some and throws 'em down." Jack uttered a chattering noise, took hold of the light nut, turned it over, and let it fall. "Toe be sure," said Billy, smiling with pride. "Then let 'em fall, and `below! and `ware heads! says you. Ain't he a monkey to be proud on, Master Mark?"
It's been a drame av mine to begin my prefarmint as biship av some far-away continent or archypilago, like, an' convart slathers av haythins an' cannebals for a practice. It ud plase me imagenation to prache among corrils an' coky-nuts an' naked crachurs.
That's betther nor coky-nuts of which, be-the-way, I'm gettin' a bit tired. I wondher, Heller, if some av these other islands wouldn't furnish us a change of diet? If we could find pataties an' grapes, it ud be a blessin' to body an' sowl. Surely it ud be a good deed to bring all this archypilago into the thrue faith.
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