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Them Yankees have shown us the way. All we've got to do is to follow their lead. Why not?" "'Cause they'll take jolly good care we don't, messmate," said Dick Bannock, wagging his head. "We've guv 'em a lesson in taking care of prisoners, and take my word on it, Tom Fillot, they've larnt it by heart." "Hark!" cried Tom Fillot; "they're a-lowering down the boat."
"Just exactly," replied old Ben. "Well, then, it was a long pull; and that reminds me that I'll have a long pull now, so hand me the porter, messmate." My father took a tremendous long pull at the pewter, and then handing it to Ben, he recommenced
"It would be well if some of my men were a little more accustomed to the sea, for they suffer much from sea-sickness. You can go below, my man, and get breakfast. You'll find your future messmate busy at his, I doubt not. "It is, sir." "Take Brand below, and introduce him to James Dove as his assistant."
"Well, speak out, messmate, and say what you mean." "Well, same as you do, Joe, only I put it a little different. Win or lose, I'd go in for tackling three of them in an or'nary way, but I says this is a 'stror'nary one, and you may put me down for six, and if I get the worst of it, well, that'll be a bit of bad luck. But anyhow I'd try." "And so say all of us," came from the rest.
"Mr Stevenson told me to introduce him to you as your assistant." The smith looked up quickly, and scanned our hero with some interest; then, extending his great hard hand across the table, he said, "Welcome, messmate; sit down, I've only just begun."
I was carefully shifted and put to bed; but during all that night and the following day, I was raving in a furious fever, so that I had to be forcibly held down in my bed, sometimes for half an hour at a time. I say, messmate, have you ever had the yellow fever, the vomito prieto, black vomit, as the Spaniards call it? No? have you ever had a bad bilious fever then? No bad bilious fever either?
"It's a true bill, nevertheless, messmate, and they never alter: how and why they keep to their time, the Lord who gave them the sense to do so only knows. It is one of the wonders of the deep, which they only who go on the great waters can bear witness to." "It beats my comprehension quite entirely," replied my father; "and yet I have seen animals with a great deal of sense.
I was one of the leaders in this arrangement, and felt much interest in it, as Jack had been my messmate; but, the instant I saw his coffin, a fit of the "horrors" came over me, and I actually left the place, running down street towards the river, as if pursued by devils. Luckily, I stopped to rest on the stoop of a druggist.
Consequent upon which, comrade we have received our marching orders." "What messmate, is it heave our anchor, you mean?" "I mean, comrade that on Saturday next, being the twenty-fifth instant, we march out bag and baggage horse, foot, and artillery, we evacuate our position in face of superior force, for good and all, comrade." "Is that so, shipmate?"
Russell says he shall come and see you soon " "I wish he would," cried Mark. "If you don't soon come and see him." "I only wish I could," said Mark, and he made an effort to rise, but sank back with a piteous look of misery in his face, which made Bob seize his hand. "Here, I say," he cried cheerily. "Oh! Don't look like that. You're only a bit weak, messmate.
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