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"Oi'll show ye afther supper, ye damned shpalpeen, how much av her got away!" shouted Irish, who waited for Bill to remove the evidence of his fight before piloting him to the grub-shack. A single table of rough lumber covered with brown oilcoth extended the full length of the center of the room.
"Faith, I hope the captain will give the shpalpeen two dozen as did it." "Who cut my hammock down?" roared the quarter-master. "Cut yer hammock, indade?" The quarter-master was in a rage and swore like a trooper. Wiping the water from his face, he roared: "Yes, cut down my hammock! Don't you see the netting has been cut?"
Mr Dugdale and Oi are now goin' below to dinner, and if ye lose soight of that loight, bedad I'll I'll keelhaul ye, ye shpalpeen. He's edgin' away off the wind, d'ye see, the blagguard!
"Thin, be jabers, I'm sorry for thim, for there's a good manny miles bechuxt here and Cape Town, and I'm afraid they'll be mortial hungry before they get there. For I'm goin' to help mesilf to everything ateable that the barque carries, and so ye may tell the skipper bad cess to him for a mismanagin' shpalpeen! Whoy didn't he lay in stores enough to carry him to the ind of his v'yage?
Be jabers, that's too bad! Where's the shpalpeen that ought to be doin' his thrick of grindin' wather?" "I sent him for'ard about three-quarters of an hour ago," said I, "to tell you that I wished to speak to you; and the loafing blackguard never returned. But what has been the matter in the forecastle, and how came you with that wound in your cheek?"
Remembering Creed, Bill feared the effect upon the old man should he present himself suddenly at the door. Advancing into the clearing, he whistled. Daddy Dunnigan paused, frying-pan in hand, and peered futilely out of the window. Again Bill whistled and watched as the other returned the pan to the stove and opened the door. "Come on in out av that, ye shpalpeen!" called Dunnigan.
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