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"Don't do that, Joey," commanded Mother Pepper, quickly, "you'll make it bleed worse'n ever. Dear me! I should think it was wet!" suppressing a shiver, as she rapidly unwound the old cloth, now very red. "Come here, over the basin." And presently the poor hand was washed off again with warm water, the long cut closed, and the strip of black court plaster stuck firmly over the wound.
"The ladies! no standing against them!" Joey thought there was no standing such digs in the ribs, but he said nothing. "I leave him to you, Sleek. I must be off to call upon Captain James. See to the lad's food and lodging. There's an order from the gun-room of the Hecate." So saying, Mr Small departed.
"Have you ever been chased by them before?" said Joey. "Yes," replied the courier, "more than once; it's the horses that they are so anxious to get hold of. Three of our horses are very good, but the fourth is not very well, the driver says, and he is fearful that he will not hold out; however, we must keep them off as long as we can; we must not shoot at them till the last moment."
He was well known to all the officers, from his being constantly on board of their ships, and was a great favourite: Joey soon discovered that Emma had a fancy for natural curiosities; and as he boarded almost every man-of-war which came into the port, he soon filled her room with a variety of shells and of birds, which he procured her.
Hev anyone seen my Joey?" It was Lizzie Pezzack, panting and bareheaded, with a scared face. "He's lame you'd know en. Have 'ee got en there? He's wandered off!" "Hush up, woman," said a bearer. "Don't keep such a pore!" "The cheeld's right enough somewheres," said another. "'Tis a man's body we've got. Stand out of the way, for shame!"
She got out of him all about the happy Sunday evenings, and how he and Joey and Charlotte quarrelled sometimes, but she took no side and treated everything as though it were a matter of course.
"By all that is contemptible "By all his patriotism, his affection for the army and the navy by his flow of eloquence, and his strength of argument by the correctness of his statements, and the precision of his arithmetic by his sum tottle, and by Joey H -e, himself "Appear!" "'Tis well!
Anyways, Joey tells me he's off this geezer and advises me to lay off him, too, though he can't name a thing against him." "Queer," said Knowlton, looking again at the canoe out on the water. "Gun running?" suggested McKay. "Nope," Tim contradicted. "I thought o' that, but Joey says they's nothin' to it; they watched this sourkrout close, and he don't never git no guns from nowheres.
"You're certain they were red, Joey?" he finally asked. "As red as his regimentals. Then there was a jug, filled with molasses, that is as big as yonder demijohn;" glancing at the vessel which contained his own private stores. "But I should have thought nothing of these, a large empty sack attracting much of my attention.
Joey dressed himself in his best suit, and presented himself at the door about ten o'clock in the morning, as Joseph O'Donahue, the name which he had taken when he went to Gravesend, and by which name he had been known to Mrs Phillips and her daughter Emma, when he made occasional visits to their house.
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