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"Neither will Kjellin," Skinner declared with equal warmth. "Well, I don't know whether he will or not. However, that's beside the question. Where is the Florence Ricks?" "Sailed from San Pedro at noon yesterday." "Where is the Quickstep?" "Sailed from Eureka to load shingles last night." "Good. Wireless the master of the Florence to provide himself with a new second mate.
The people laughed again at this, while the old man, after a flourish of his hat to me, piped up lively quickstep, called "Jockeys to the Fair." He disappeared after this. I did not see him again until our troubles began, later in the morning. I was finishing off the last of my letters, when some of our scouts rode in to make a grave report to the Duke.
"You're to play bear in the streets to-morrow which is sport for the King," he retorted; "we lead you by a rope, and you dance the quickstep to please our ladies all the way to the Chateau, where they bring the bear to drum-head." "Who sits behind the drum?" I questioned. "The Marquis de Vaudreuil," he replied, "the Intendant, Master Devil Doltaire, and the little men."
I don't know whether it was a waltz the band was playing, or if horses were taught to waltz so long ago; but whatever kind of dance it was, gallopade, quickstep, or cotillion, Peter, in his horse-fashion, danced it well. Faster and faster played the music, and round and round went the pony.
"The captain got me foul in his cabin when I went to be paid off, and hung a shanty back of my ear, so I threw him out on deck and hurt him. You'll have to send a new skipper up to bring the Quickstep home, sir. The first mate is a good man but he hasn't a master's license " "What did you do to Kjellin, Matt?" "You'll have to ask a doctor, sir.
Not a second was lost in getting the Fortuna under way with her nose pointed out to sea. After the engines had been set whirling Jack recovered his breath and explained that the vessel had been the schooner "Quickstep," that had so nearly wrecked the Fortuna. Her clearance was for New York and she was heavily laden with lumber. "We can make about three miles to his one," Jack explained.
He turned the handles of the little organ fitfully, so that now the strains of sorrow arose at such long intervals as hardly to be connected with one another, and now all huddled and jumbled like notes in a barbaric quickstep, and as he played he addressed his instrument in a quiet, cruel voice. A house-maid opened a window in the servants' wing of No. 1 Fifth Avenue.
One of the greatest Generals of the day, considering the environment, was Antonio Maceo, the Cuban mulatto hero, who, for two years, kept the Spanish army at bay or led them a lively quickstep through the western provinces to the very gates of Havana.
Dick felt the wind of the massed movement in his face, heard the maddening tramp of feet and the friction of the pouches on the belts. The big drum pounded out the tune. It was a music-hall refrain that made a perfect quickstep
The Quickstep bucked a howling southeaster all the way down the coast, and the Skinners were knocked from one end of their wet stateroom to the other and slept not a wink. It was a frightful experience, and to add to the discomfort of the trip Mrs. Skinner wept all the way.
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