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There is not many children in the Town and they are all too dressed up, but it is a million down in the Settlement and we are going to have two baseball nines and two armies to battle with. I asked Mr. Nickols to have a place to wash the Settlements and he said he had thought of that and is going to have five shower baths. If you'll just wash Mikey for me I'll help you.
And it will be simply glorious to get away from the taut discipline of the Shark for a little while, to say nothing of the possibility of another such adventure as your last. But a pirate won't have it all his own way this time if he attempts to meddle with us, I can tell you, for the schooner mounts eight long nines, and carries a long eighteen on her forecastle.
"You will take charge of the battery of nines on this deck, Mr. Carvel," said he, at length. "Very good, sir," I replied, and was making my way down the poop ladder, when I heard him calling me, in a low voice, by the old name: "Richard!" I turned and followed him aft to the taffrail, where we were clear of the French soldiers.
Even if nines are organized in every ward, as has been suggested, it is hard to see how they can be allowed to play each other, as they would want to, of course, as soon as they could toddle about. It would be something, though, a smallpox nine pitted against the scarlets or the measles, with an umpire from the mixed ward!
"Now," said I to O'Flaherty, "if that is the same felucca that passed the Pinta when we were up here before, we shall have our hands full, for she carries two more guns than we do, and hers are nines whilst ours are sixes; moreover, she has half as many men again as we have, and if they are anything like as tough as they appeared to be they will fight desperately.
In 1779 Jones hoisted his flag on the Duc de Duras, a condemned East Indiaman, which would have been broken up had he not turned her into a makeshift frigate by mounting forty guns in her batteries fourteen twelve-pounders, twenty nines and six eighteens. This, in honor of Franklin, he named the Bonhomme Richard.
Then it came Frank's turn, and he simply staid in. Harris was dealing, and he dropped out, while Dare simply "made good." This gave Snell his turn, and he "boosted" two dollars. "Whew!" breathed Winslow. "That settles me. I'm out." Hodge was game, and he "came up" on a pair of nines.
She carried 48 guns, including 30 long 18-pounders on the main-deck, 16 carronades, 32-pounders, and 2 long nines on her quarter-deck and forecastle. She measured under 1100 tons, and though her regular complement was 300 men and boys, she was nearly 40 men short.
He was often interrupted when with his pupils, but they were generally conscientious enough to go on working during his absence. But Roy's lesson this morning was not interesting, and he was unusually talkative. "It's no good trying to master this sum, it's all those nines. They're nasty, lanky, spiteful little brutes, I should like to tear them out of the sum-books."
He meant paying another visit that day, so was attired de rigueur, a fact at which Voles, pipe in mouth and lounging in pajamas, promptly scoffed. "Gee!" he cried. "Here's the Senator mooching round again, dressed up to the nines dust coat, morning suit, boots shining, all the frills but visiting low companions all the same. Why doesn't the man turn over a new leaf and become good?"
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