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Carvel in fitting out the Ranger. And my grandfather gives a striking picture of the captain. At that time the privateers, with the larger inducements of profit they offered, were getting all the best seamen. John Paul had but to take two turns with a man across the dock, and he would sign papers. Captain Jones was the first to raise the new flag of the stars and stripes over a man-o'-war.
He had even softened the admonition by explaining that his strictness arose from a justifiable family pride, several of his paternal ancestors having been man-o'-war captains, and one an admiral in which cases, the name would certainly seem appropriate. But some Continental surnames are sad indeed. The roll-call of Germany furnishes, perhaps, the most unhappy examples.
"He's coming around all right," said Greer, then he looked about him. "What do you make out of this anyway, Mr. Madden?" Leonard glanced around and did see a remarkable derelict. The schooner was as newly painted and trig as if fresh from the ways. Her deck was holystoned to man-o'-war cleanliness; every sheet, hawser, stay, tackle, pin, spike, was in place.
Strong-limbed, long-winded lads like them, who could have swarmed in two minutes to the main truck of a man-o'-war, needed no such indulgence as that. Instead of one hundred feet of sloping sand, any one of them could have scaled Snowdon without stopping to look back. Their halt had been made from a different motive.
The imagination thrills, and Heaven knows what figures people still its broad stream, Doctor Johnson with Boswell by his side, an old Pepys going on board a man-o'-war: the pageant of English history, and romance, and high adventure. Philip turned to Hayward with shining eyes. "Dear Charles Dickens," he murmured, smiling a little at his own emotion.
No; `Let it stand if 'twill, is the word, `and if 'twon't, let it blow away. But the chap is a real good seaman, Harry, no man'll deny that; look how snug he's got everything; and all hauled taut and coiled down neat and reg'lar man-o'-war fashion I'll be bound."
"You'll find I can be a deal of use to you if you stick to me, and I can take your part if any of the other middies try to bounce you." "Will there be any other midshipmen?" I asked. "P'raps. But it's all gammon calling us middies. We are only a kind of apprentices, you know. It isn't like being in a man-o'-war."
As has already been mentioned, the Psyche was a British man-o'-war. She was a sloop, armed with fourteen long 18-pounders; and carried a crew which had originally consisted of one hundred and thirty men, but which had now been reduced by sickness and casualties to one hundred and four, all told.
"And the orficer there from the Revenoo cutter, he says: `You find the body o' young Mr Wrighton of the man-o'-war sloop, and there'll be the same reward for that." "Humph! I should have thought I was worth more than that," said the midshipman. "Ay, ay, sir!" cried Tom Bodger, who was squeezing his shirt and breeches as he talked.
"By.... After the 32nd chapter of "Treasure Island," two of the puppets strolled out to have a pipe before business should begin again, and met in an open place not far from the story. "Good-morning, Cap'n," said the first, with a man-o'-war salute, and a beaming countenance. "Ah, Silver!" grunted the other. "You're in a bad way, Silver."
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