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Well, you can cruise a long ways on a v'yage like that. What do you mean?" "Aw, let me alone! I'm going to the club, I guess, or somewhere. Anyhow, I won't stay with her. I told her so. Silly little idiot! By gad, she understands what I think of her conduct. I'll never speak to her again. I told her so. She " "Here! Belay! Stop! Who are you talking about?" "Caro, of course. She "
Dey all said we hab a mighty quiet v'yage, but Lor' bress yer! it was all 'long ob Mas'r Graham. He wouldn't let no wabes run ter pitch his darlin' roun'. Missy Grace, she used ter sit an' larf an' larf at 'im bress her dear heart, how much good it do me to hear de honey larf like her ole dear self!
"Certainly not," snapped Mrs. Dunn. "Of course, of course. Well, 'tain't a life I'd want a boy of mine to take up, nowadays. But it did have some advantages. I don't know anything better than a v'yage afore the mast to learn a young feller what's healthy for him to unlearn. Good day, ma'am. Good day, Mr. Dunn. I mustn't keep the Commodore waitin' here with that valise.
Then, thinkin' us dead for he'll not dream that it's been possible for us to have hidden ourselves here and escaped these ruffians he will continue his v'yage wi'out troublin' to come back here; and here we shall remain, perhaps till we die.
"An' another cross agin yer fren' the Priest." "Was it he?" "Th' same." He gave Wilson a little food and a wisp of the coca leaves to chew and briefly told him what he had just been through. He concluded with a wave of his hand about him. "So here we are at last, an' a crew of savages waitin' fer us at the top, which makes a fine and fittin' end fer any v'yage upon which I embarks."
You can come along if you want to, but it'll be a tougher v'yage than the one we've come through." "How far off is this this village of yours?" "Oh, about a mile and a half!" "A mile and a half! And it's beginnin' to rain again! Emily, I don't know how you feel, but if the horse can wait under the shed until somebody comes I guess we can. I say let's do it." Emily nodded.
Had the skipper's wife one v'yage, but nobody ever ordered her around any to speak of. She was six feet tall and weighed two hundred. All hands was scart to death of her." "Suppose she had been ordered to 'sit down and keep still'; what do you think would have happened?" "Don't know. If 'twas one of the hands I guess likely she'd have hove him overboard.
"Bless you, Mister Leigh, we're miles to windward of that place," said he with a laugh. "But it's allers the way with your young navigators as is full chock up to the bung with book larnin' and hasn't had no real 'sperience o' the sea yet! They allers fancy all sorts o' dangers that your old seamen who've been a v'yage or two never thinks o' reckonin' on!"
"He came down on the boat with us from Milwaukee. I knowed him as soon as I seen him, but I couldn't think all the v'yage what in time I wanted to find him fer. You jest put it in my mind!" "Where is he?" I shouted. "You hain't lost him, have you?" Bill stood for quite a while chewing tobacco, and scratching his head. "Where is he?" I yelled. "Belay bellering," said Bill.
Allie hasn't come back to Bayport sence, and the last I heard he'd married that Newport girl; she has my sympathy, if that's any comfort to her. "And Barbara? Well, for a long time she'd turn white every time I met her. But, of course, I kept my mouth shut, and she went to sea next v'yage with her dad. And now I hear she's engaged to a nice feller up to Boston. "Oh, yes one thing more.
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