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But they seemed to think I wasn't of much account." "Oh!" protested the Babe politely. It did not seem to him quite right that Uncle Andy should be regarded lightly, even by an otter. "Well, you know, I wasn't of much account. I was neither dangerous, like Jim Cringle, nor good to eat, like a muskrat or a pickerel. So I don't appear any more in this yarn.
I did not know the extent of your accomplishments; grown poetical ever since you saw Francesca Cangrejo, eh?" The darkness hid the gallant captain's blushes, if blush he did. "I say, Don Ricardo, who are those?" half a dozen well clad negroes had approached the house by this time "Ask them, Mr Bang; take your friend Mr Cringle for an interpreter." "Well, I will. Tom, who are they? Ask them do."
"Why," said I, "we shall put him in a tub of water, here on deck, Mr Wagtail, if you please." "God bless me, no!" quoth the gastronome. "Why, he is strong as an eagle, and will smash himself to mummy in half an hour in a tub. No no see, he weighs twelve pounds at the very lightest. Lord! Mr Cringle, I am surprised at you."
"True," continued Don Ricardo, "Padre Carera brought a joint message from his poor mother, and sister, and and, oh my darling god child, my heart dear Maria!". And the kind old man wept bitterly. I was much moved. "Why, Mr Cringle," said Transom, "if you have promised to deliver the trinkets in propria persona, there's an end, take leave nothing doing down yonder send Tailtackle for clothes.
"Bad enough indeed. Mr Casket many thanks though bad enough, as you say; but I would that your boats crew were in so good a plight." Mr Gasket looked earnestly at me "Why, I have my own misgivings, Cringle; this morning at day break, the Firebrand in company, we fell in with an armed felucca. It was dead calm, and she was out of gun shot, close in with the land.
The Wave having been armed and fitted with every thing considered necessary, you are to man her with thirty five of your crew, including officers, and to place her under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Cringle, who is to be furnished with a copy of this letter authenticated by your signature, and to whom you will give written instructions, that he is first of all to cruise in the great Cuba channel, until the 14th proximo, for the prevention of piracy, and the suppression of the slave trade carried on between the island of Cuba and the coast of Africa, and to detain and carry into Havanna, or Nassau, New Providence, all vessels having slaves on board, which he may have reason to believe have been shipped beyond the prescribed limits on the African coast as specified in the margin; and after the 14th he is to proceed direct to New Providence if unsuccessful, there to land Mr Jigmaree, and the dockyard negroes, and await your return from the northward, after having seen the merchantmen clear of the Caicos passage.
"It is well for you and good for myself, Mr Cringle, that something weighs heavy at my heart at this moment, and that there is that about you which, notwithstanding your ill timed jesting, commands my respect, and engages my goodwill had it not been so, you would have been alongside of poor Paul at this moment."
"Can you not read it yet, Mr Cringle? can you not read my story in the fate of the first beautiful fly, and the miserable end of my Federico, in that of the lizard? And oh, may the last appearance of the ethereal thing, which but now rose, and melted into the lovely sky, be a true type of what I shall be!
"Sharp work you must have had, Mr Cringle should have liked to have been with you myself. Help yourself, before passing that bottle zounds, man, never take a bottle by the bilge grasp the neck, man, at least in this fervent climate thank you. Pity you had not caught the captain though.
Splinter, but if you will spare Mr. Cringle on the forecastle an hour, until the moon rises." Kennedy, why? here, man, take a glass of grog." "I thank you sir."
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