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'Ah, says he, 'you can go ashore, if you like, and stay, he says; 'but as for the ship, she'll beat up for more, by thunder! That's what he said. "Well, I was in another ship three years back, and we sighted this island. 'Boys, said I, 'here's Flint's treasure; let's land and find it. The cap'n was displeased at that, but my messmates were all of a mind and landed.
"Mon fils! mon fils!" cried the gentleman, enclosing him in his arms and bursting into tears. It was the gallant Captain of the Vengeur. "Next to winning the battle, I would sooner have seen that meeting between the brave French Captain and his son than anything else I know of!" exclaimed True Blue as he recounted the adventure to Tim Fid, Harry Hartland, and other messmates on board the Ruby.
"Never mind the blinders," replied R , with gaiety; "if your messmates will thrash through them, I will." "God bless you! my Lord thank you;" and the sick man took R 's hand, and clasped it firmly as the weakness of his condition granted. Hurrying to the deck, R ascertained the feeling of his crew, for I heard above the loudness of the storm, D call to the men, "What will you do, my sons?
Enraged, as much at the laughter against him as at the blow he had received, he snatched up a carving fork, and, before any one was aware of his intention, stabbed me with it four times. I jumped up to punish him, but the moment I got on my legs was so stiff, that I fell back into the arms of my messmates. The surgeon examined the wounds, which were serious; two of them nearly touched an artery.
I see them scattered at random; a few of them are grouped in the same trench; but I never see them browsing economically abreast as Réaumur relates. There is no order, no understanding between messmates, contemporaries though they be and all sprung from the same row of eggs. Nor is any heed paid to economy: the lily is so generous! Meanwhile, the paunch swells and the intestine labours.
Another captain had been appointed, who had been superseded, and he had selected most of the officers. Many of my messmates are good fellows, but of others the less said about them the better, at least as far as I could judge from the way they behaved when I first went into the berth. We carry thirty-six guns.
To-day Prince Arisugawa came on board, and in due course was consigned to the tender mercies of the young English gentlemen in the gunroom; his future messmates and shall I be wrong if I say tormentors? At the same time a most acceptable gift to the ship's company, consisting of eight bullocks, was brought alongside; the present, I believe, of the Emperor, whose health we ate next day.
The intense interest attached to the securing of this spar had extended to the look-out in the top, and instead of keeping his eye on the desert, as ordered, he was looking down at the party on the beach, and betraying his sympathy in their efforts by bending his body, and appearing to heave in common with his messmates.
"Well, well, I'm not afraid," answered Ben; "the enemy's shot are in no ways particular, and I should not be so very sorry if one of them was to take off the head of that Lord Reginald or Toady Voules, as his messmates call him."
Yes, I loved her so well, that I was seized with horror at my past life; I resolved to repent, to marry her, and settle down into an honest man. Accordingly, I summoned my messmates, told them my resolution, resigned my command, and persuaded them to depart. They were good fellows; engaged with a Dutchman, against whom I heard afterwards they made a successful mutiny, but I never saw them more.
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