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However, she cried so hard that they just had to let her on board. "But if you come, you'll have to be my slave," the Captain told her. Perhaps that is the reason why he let her sail at all. He wanted a slave very much and since Marmaduke wouldn't be one and was Dick Deadeye anyway, why, the little girl would have to do.
"I really can't tell," said the man, trembling from head to foot; "Mr. Splinter has sent for the gunner, sir." "The devil!" said Deadeye, as he hurried on deck. We all followed. A search was made. "Some matches have caught in the magazine," said one. "We shall be up and away like sky-rockets," said another.
"Is the boat-gun on the forecastle loaded?" said Captain Deadeye. "It is, sir." "Then luff a bit that will do fire." The gun was discharged, and down rushed the black wavering pillar in a watery avalanche, and in a minute after the dark heaving billows rolled over the spot whereout it arose, as if no such thing had ever been.
Captain Deadeye was a staid, wall-eyed veteran, with his coat of a regular Rodney cut, broad skirts, long waist, and stand-up collar, over which dangled either a queue, or marlinspike with a tuft of oakum at the end of it it would have puzzled old Nick to say which.
"Not a bad plan," said old Deadeye; "put it in execution, and I will go below and get the despatches immediately." The canoe was once more hoisted out; the three black fellows, the pilot of the ship continuing on board, jumped into her alongside. "Had you not better take a couple of hands with you, Mr. Treenail?" said the skipper.
"Not a bad plan," said old Deadeye; "put it in execution, and I will go below and get the despatches immediately." The canoe was once more hoisted out; the three black fellows, the pilot of the ship continuing on board, jumped into her alongside. "Had you not better take a couple of hands with you, Mr Treenail?" said the skipper.
"Lieutenant," said he, "will you allow me to put this barrel of New York apples into the boat as a present to Captain Deadeye, from Captain -of the United States navy?"
Jonathan, no doubt "calculated," as well he might, that this taste of his quality would be quite sufficient for a little eighteen gun sloop, close under his lee; but the fight was not to be so easily taken out of Deadeye, although even to his optic it was now high time to be off. "All hands make sail, Mr Splinter; that chap is too heavy for us.
"It ish not so mosh vat I shee, as vat I no shee, sir, dat trembles me. It cannot surely be possib dat de Prussian an' Hanoverian troop have left de place, and dat dese dem Franceman ave advance so far as de Elbe autrefois, dat ish, once more? "French!" said Deadeye: 'poo, nonsense; no French hereabouts; none nearer than those cooped up in Hamburgh with Davoust, take my word for it."
The varieties of lashings, seizings, whippings, and servings are almost innumerable, but a few of the best and most frequently used are the "Wedding Knot" or "Rose Lashing," the "Deadeye Lashing," the "Belaying-pin Splice," the "Necklace Tie," the "Close Band," and "End Pointings."
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