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Corporal, lend me the cleaver." "Bravo, Smallbones, we won't peach not one of us." "I'm not sure of that," replied Moggy; "some won't, I know: but there are others who may, and then Smallbones will be keel-hauled as sure as fate, and Vanslyperken will have right on his side. No, no, Smallbones you must not do it.
But to his grief and disappointment he was not there, and Mr Vanslyperken sat in the stern sheets, in no pleasant humour, thinking whether it was or was not a paving-stone which Smallbones had thrown into the canal, and resolving that if the dog did not appear, Smallbones should be keel-hauled. There was, however, one more chance, the dog might have been taken on board.
"Still, you seem well enough; you are as hale and hearty as if you had just been keel-hauled and got a new rig." "It is not my body that is suffering, Willis; it is my mind." "Whatever is the matter?" "Willis, my wife is dying." And so it was.
A terrible frown had spread over the faces of both Growler and Prowler. "Above all," whispered the mate in low and earnest tones, "none of that! If you don't want to be keel-hauled, don't recall his shameful past!"
"Well, I'll be keel-hauled and skull-dragged!" said Captain Scraggs, producing a box of two-for-a-quarter cigars and handing it to Mr. Gibney. "Gib, my dear boy, wherever have you been these last three years?" "Everywhere," replied Mr. Gibney. "I have been all over, mostly in Panama and the Gold Coast. For two years I've been navigatin' officer on the Colombian gunboat Bogota.
He has not come up on deck for nothing, and yet he appears to be strangely puzzled: the fact is, by the arrangements of last night, it was decided, that this morning, if Snarleyyow did not make his appearance in the boat sent on shore for fresh beef for the ship's company, the unfortunate Smallbones was to be keel-hauled. What a delightful morning for a keel-hauling!
"`Silly! `vulgar! You very small fragment of impudence," rejoined Larkyns, highly delighted at being thus successful in "pulling my leg" and making me angry, "I'll have you keel-hauled for speaking so disrespectfully to your superior officer, sir. Beg my pardon instantly, or "
"So these are your consorts; eh, Bet? They do you proud! May I be keel-hauled if I've seen a prettier set of sails on a craft in a long while. It's good rigging good rigging," and he glanced particularly at the dresses. Betty presented her friends in turn, and Mr. Martin had something odd to say to each as he shook hands heartily. "Uncle Amos has brought the surprise," said Betty.
You ought to be keel-hauled and well payed." "Ay; you're payed, and paid off as an old hulk." "D e you you oh! I wish I had you on board ship, I'd make your lubberly carcass like a union jack, full of red and blue stripes." "Oh! it's all very well; but if you don't take to your heels, you'll have all the old women in the village a whacking on you, that's all I have to say about it.
"Mercy, sir, O sir!" cried the lad, the tears streaming from his eyes. "The thief's cat, with three knots in each tail." Smallbones raised up his thin arms, and clasped his hands, pleading for mercy. "And after the flogging you shall be keel-hauled." "O God!" screamed Smallbones, falling down on his knees, "mercy mercy!" But there was none.
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