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't were a grand day for us, a grand day for our Nelson, and a grand day for England that twenty-first o' October though 't were that day as they French and Spanishers done for the poor old 'Bully-Sawyer, Seventy-four, and his honor's arm and my leg, d' ye see.
Like a good boy, Garge waited until the two Spanishers had left the church, and then comed straight down aboard and told me what he'd heard. At first I didn't put very much faith in the yarn, I'll own to't, but that there Garge so pestered and worrited me that at last I let mun have mun's way; and ten minutes afore midnight the Bonaventure was under way and standin' out o' the harbour.
That was enough for they Spanishers; a'ter that they was ready enough to trade wi' us; and indeed that same night some of 'em comed back, bringin' their goold and their pearls with 'em; and avore we left the place we'd parted wi' no less than two hunderd blacks.
But Garge have got the fiend's own gift for tongues and languages, and the night avore we sailed he happened to be ashore lookin' round Santander, and while he were standin' on one side of a pillar in a church he heard two Spanishers on t'other side of that there same pillar talkin' about the embargo that King Philip was goin' to declare again' the English at midnight that very night as ever was.
And as I prayed, I heard yet other lamentable outcries, followed in due season by the hollow plunge of falling bodies; and so perished these four miserable captives. "So perish all Papishers, Romanists, Inquisitioners, and especially Spanishers, friend!" "'Twas cruel and bloody murder!" quoth I, scowling up at him.
Answer I Spanishers, Papishers, the Pope o' Rome and his bloody Inquisition, of which last I have lasting experience, camarado aye, I have I!" "Ah?" said I, sitting up. "You have suffered the torture?" "Comrade, look at me!
"I am so minded," said I. "Then, sir, jump up," said he. "Thanks!" said I. So I climbed upon the seat beside him, and then I saw that he had a wooden leg, and straightway understood his smart bearing, and general neat appearance. "You have been a soldier?" said I. "And my name's Tom, and I could tell you a sight about them Spanishers, and Frenchies that is, if you be so minded?"
"The Nagurs wouldn't have been a job at all for ould England, letting alone Ireland," said the latter, "if these French and Spanishers hadn't been troubling themselves in the matter. I'm sure its but little reason I have for thanking them, if a man is to kape as sober as a praist at mass, for fear he should find himself a souldier, and he knowing nothing about the same."
Aha, all Spanishers are devils for cruelty, but their Churchmen are worst and of all their Churchmen the coldest, softest, bloodiest is Alexo Valdez, Chief Inquisitor of Nombre de Dios yonder " "Ha, you know Nombre de Dios?" "I ha' lived and suffered there, master, and 'tis there I be a-going for to make an end o' Bloody Valdez, if God be kind." "Then," said I, "we will travel so far together "
"Master," said John, with a flourish of his ragged arm, "here's freedom here's God. A land o' milk and honey given over to devils curse all Spanishers, say I!"
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