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He sprang back with shrill laughter. "Begolly! and will your honor be whistling the hornpipe for me to be dancing of?" he cried. SPANG! went his fist into Wessner's face, and he was past him into the swale. "And would you be pleased to tune up a little livelier?" he gasped, and clipped his ear as he sprang back. Wessner lunged at him in blind fury.
He was awakened from his slumbers by the noise of his bed-fellows, one of whom, wearing grey cotton stockings, was performing a hornpipe; while another, evidently very drunk, was warbling as much as he could recollect of a comic song; the third, a man with thick, bushy whiskers, was applauding both performers. "My name is Smangle, sir," said the man with the whiskers to Mr. Pickwick.
"I say, Bill," remarked one of the couple who held Jem Hogg's lines, "Jem seems to be doin' somethin' uncommon queer he's either got hold of a conger-eel by the tail, or he's amoosin himself by dancin' a hornpipe." "Why, boys," answered Bill, who was one of the attendants on Edgar, "I do believe Mr Berrington has got hold o' somethin' o' the same sort.
But while bathing, the ludicrous will often break through the grand. Swept hither and thither, you find, moving in reel and cotillon, saraband and rigadoon and hornpipe, Quakers and Presbyterians who are down on the dance.
In my exuberance, I danced an Irish hornpipe, and my career in the barrack-room was over. In January, 1883, the big troop-ship bearing reinforcements for the Mediterranean Squadron steamed into Malta Harbour and we were transferred to our respective ships. The Alexandra was supposed to be the most powerful ship in Victoria's navy at that time. She carried the flag of Admiral Lord John Hay.
These orders were obeyed with three cheers; and ere the sun went down full many a hornpipe had been danced on deck by the uncouth though agile William. We next find Capt. Boldheart about three leagues off Madeira, surveying through his spy-glass a stranger of suspicious appearance making sail towards him.
Lightly and gracefully he went through his steps, the men crowding in from the bar to admire, for Nixon was famed for his hornpipe. But when, after the hornpipe, he proceeded to execute a clog-dance, garnished with acrobatic feats, the committee interfered. There were cries of 'Put him out! and 'Let him alone!
The corporal stayed when the others went out, and, in broken English, told McGilveray so. "I'll play a hornpipe, an' his gory shroud is round him," said McGilveray. The corporal grinned from ear to ear. "You like a chew tabac?" said he, pulling out a dirty knob of a black plug. McGilveray had found a man after his own heart.
"He danced a hornpipe, miss, to the tune of the Swaggerin' Jig, upon the kitchen table," she proceeded; "and, sorra be off me, but it would do your heart good to see the springs he would give every one o' them a yard high and to hear how he'd crack his fingers as loud as the shot of a pistol."
Do you strike up a right jolly hornpipe, and I'll toe and heel it till all's blue, and see if I don't make them understand what a real sailor can do with his feet when he's inclined." The idea pleased me amazingly; so I came to the door, and began to scrape away right merrily, while Jack commenced one of the wildest hornpipes I ever saw danced.
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