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"That will make us short-handed, and we need every one," said Mr. Linden; "I wish Fred was here to give us help." "I think I can ride my hoss to Greville," said Bowlby, "and bring him back with me." "That is hardly worth while." "Where is the home of my brother?" gently asked Deerfoot. "At the settlement of Greville, about a hundred miles to the north."
"Saddle up, boys," said the latter. "Fire over beyond Baldy. Ride and gather in the men who are about here," he told Bob. Bob sprang on Charley Morton's horse and rode about instructing the workers to gather. When he returned, Thorne gave his instructions. "We're short-handed," he stated, "and it'll be hard to get help just at this time.
Peter Bligh's coming, and I couldn't well leave Dolly on board. Give me our hulking carpenter, Seth Barker, and I'll lighten the ship no more. We're short-handed as it is. And, besides, if four won't serve, then forty would be no better. What we can do yonder, wits, and not revolvers, must bring about.
"Ah, Dale," he cried, "I'm glad you've come. I want you to stay on guard with Mr Preddle. You have a pistol?" "Yes," I said, pointing to my belt. "That's right. I want to go to the wheel. Hampton is there now. I should like to do more, but it is terrible work now, short-handed as we are; and we must run on in this blind fashion, for I have no idea where we are."
Not one of my nurses was working, though there were a great many wounded in Brussels, and we knew that they were short-handed. There was nothing to do but to walk about the streets and read the new affiches, or proclamations, which were put up almost every day, one side in French, the other side in German, so that all who listed might read. They were of two kinds.
Besides, he owned a little money, which he had got working for others when his master's task was done. Thus, bur'dened and equipped, he set out to tempt Fortune. He might do one of two things farm land upon shares for one of his short-handed neighbours, or buy a farm, mortgage it, and pay for it as he could.
"The breeze freshens, Jack," replied Gascoigne; "and it begins to look very dirty to windward. I think we shall have a gale." "Pleasant I know what it is to be short-handed in a gale; however, there's one comfort, we shall not be blown off-shore this time." "No, but we may be wrecked on a lee shore.
"This, I say, is Captain Vandean, and I'm Captain Howlett, and we came in the boat and saved your lives when you were pitched overboard out of the slaver." "Are these the two men?" said Mark, eagerly. "Right, my lord. These are they. I've had 'em holy-stoned and fresh painted. They seemed to want to stay, and the skipper said as he was short-handed he'd give 'em a trial.
But short-handed as they were he could not argue Weeks away from his post if the man insisted upon staying. He had other, and for the time being, more important matters before him. How long they sweated out that descent upon their native world Dane could never afterwards have testified.
He found only the six men mentioned by Stopfoot, though he had looked in every part of the vessel, even to the fire-room and the quarters of the crew and firemen. "I find everything as you stated, Captain Stopfoot; but I should say that you were proposing to go to sea short-handed. I did not even see a person whom I took for the mate.
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