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Alas, sir! what was a poor wretch so tempted as I to do?" "And did you sign?" asked Mr. Pettibones, all agog to hear the conclusion of so strange a narration. "Woe is me, sir, that I should have done so!" quoth Captain Obadiah, rolling his eyes until little but the whites of them were to be seen. "And did you catch the Spanish ship?" "That we did, sir, and stripped her as clean as a whistle."
They left Littleton soon after, on their homeward journey. Three weeks had now passed since my arrival at my uncle's home, and I found myself daily becoming more and more attached to my kind uncle and aunt. Obadiah appeared to feel much more at his ease in my presence than at the first.
Never mind which, we pass on, in hot pursuit the wound itself which brings him is not felt, the best way is to stand up to him, the man who flies, is in ten times more danger than the man who marches up into his jaws. I've look'd him, added the corporal, an hundred times in the face, and know what he is. He's nothing, Obadiah, at all in the field. But he's very frightful in a house, quoth Obadiah.
"Never mind Jemmy's wife, let's have Jemmy's song," said Spurey; "he hasn't piped since he was pulled up by the corporal." "No: he put my pipe out, the hippopotamus. Well, I'll give it you it shall be about what we are talking of, Obadiah." Jemmy perched himself on the fore-end of the booms, and sang as follows:
"What dew they call that air tune box?" inquired Israel Goodrich. "I've hearn tell but I kinder fergit. It's some Frenchified soundin name." "It's a pianner," said Obadiah. "I guess peeanner's nigher right," observed Peleg critically. "My gal hearn the Edwards gal call it peeanner." "They ain't nuther of ye in a mile o' right.
This answered all that Obadiah and the maid intended; but was no remedy against some evils which neither he or she foresaw. Sir, the jingle was incredible.
The Jew got in first. The prisoner was then thrust in by Quilt. Before Jonathan followed he turned to face his assailants. "Back!" he cried fiercely. "I am an officer in the execution of my duty. And he who opposes me in it shall feel the weight of my hand." He then sprung into the coach, the door of which was closed by Obadiah, who mounted the box.
But matters were drawing to a crisis; for Dood, more enraged than ever at the quiet of Obadiah, made oath that he would do something before long to wake up the spunk of Lawson. Chance favoured his design. The Quaker had a high-blooded filly, which he had been very careful in raising, and which was just four years old.
And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
The people came from miles around and there were no vacant seats. Even the aisles were filled with chairs when the Rev. Obadiah Champ rose and bawled aloud in rolling paragraphs about "Hopeless, helpless, hell-damned sinners all. Come, come to-day. Come now and be saved." A wave of religious hysteria spread over the packed-in human beings.
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