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What's the mighty difference between holding a mast's lightning-rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasn't got any lightning-rod at all in a storm? Don't you see, you timber-head, that no harm can come to the holder of the rod, unless the mast is first struck? What are you talking about, then?
"The resemblance is perfect;" returned the other leaning far over a timber-head, to catch the smallest sound that might come from the ocean. "That was no more than the blowing of a porpoise!" "It was strong enough for the puff of a whale.
"Well, I seed him, Cap'in Spike; and what a body sees, he is acquainted wid." "You saw an image that looked as much like Mr. Mulford, my late mate, as one timber-head in this brig is like another." "Yes, sir, he like enough must say dat so wery like, could n't see any difference."
Yes, by the Commodore's boots! they stole me out of my cradle here in the palace of Rio, and put that green-horn in my place. Ay, you timber-head, you, I'm Don Pedro II., and by good rights you ought to be a main-top-man here, with your fist in a tar-bucket!
What's the mighty difference between holding a mast's lightning-rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasn't got any lightning-rod at all in a storm? Don't you see, you timber-head, that no harm can come to the holder of the rod, unless the mast is first struck? What are you talking about, then?
"Most of the time," said I. "He runs the college in his odd moments." "He wouldn't have run the Siwash I went to," said Pa Rearick grimly. "No," said I, "you egregious timber-head, he'd have spent his time limping after Homer." But as I said it only to myself, no one was insulted. "Has he learned anything?" said old Hostilities, after some more silence.
"Ay, come hither," resumed Spike, seating himself at his ease on the trunk, while Jack stood near by, his arms still folded, and his rotund little form as immovable, under the plunges that the lively brig made into the head-seas that she was obliged to meet, as if a timber-head in the vessel itself. "You keep your sea-legs well, Jack, short as they are."
Look up to that long pole there d'ye see it? that piece of a tree there, you timber-head well take this bucket here, and go up the rigging that rope-ladder there do you understand? and dab this slush all over the mast, and look out for your head if one drop falls on deck. Be off now, Buttons." The eventful hour had arrived; for the first time in my life I was to ascend a ship's mast.
"It's a water-rat, shipmates, that's dead; and here he is" and with that, he dragged forth the sailor's arm, exclaiming, "Dead as a timber-head!" Upon this the men rushed toward the bunk, Max with the light, which he held to the man's face. "No, he's not dead," he cried, as the yellow flame wavered for a moment at the seaman's motionless mouth.
When the steamer had vanished behind the stately pines shrouding the Narrows, English Jim sat down upon a timber-head and swore a little at what he called his luck, before he uneasily recounted the folded papers in his wallet. "A pretty mess I've made of it all, and there'll be no end of trouble if Thurston hears of this," he said aloud, so that a loafing porter heard and grinned.
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