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Other voices carried back the call, and presently the Treasurer, Mr Willett a pursey little man with enormous side-whiskers, came hurrying forward from the after-companion, where he had been engaged in hearing a protest from an excited disputant a competitor in the 16-foot class who had in fact come in last, even on his handicap, but with a clear notion in his own mind, and an array of arguments to convince others, that he was entitled to the prize.
"Glad to see ye, Mike, and wish I could say the same to poor Roger. The devils knifed poor Roger, I reckon." "No, they did not," said my father, in a lull of the wind. "They knocked him on the back of the head and slid his body down the after-companion. The noise of him bumping down the ladder was what first fetched me awake. He's a trifle dazed yet, but recovering."
Freer were smoking, half-way between the quarter-deck and the after-companion, where Captain Brown, Dr. Potter, Muriel, and I were standing. Captain Lecky, seated on a large coil of rope, placed on the box of the rudder, was spinning Mabelle a yarn. A new hand was steering, and just at the moment when an unusually big wave overtook us, he unfortunately allowed the vessel to broach to a little.
Just at this moment there emerged from the after-companion of the Severn Belle, immediately below them, a large head shaped like an enormous pear shaped, that is, as if designed to persuade an upward passage through difficult hatchways, so narrow was the cranium and so extremely full the jowl.
He had discovered the binnacle, and was gazing for the first time at the mariner's compass! "Hi!" cried the responsive Anteek in a wide-eyed condition. He had discovered the after-companion, which was partially open, and was gazing solemnly into the depths below.
It was at this point in the business that the eyes of Nazinred beheld a column of smoke rising from the after-companion hatch which threw his own smoking powers entirely into the shade, and induced him to utter an unreasoning war-whoop that roused the Eskimo tribe as if by a shock of electricity. The entire population rushed out like one man.
At the head of the after-companion Captain Branscome met us and conducted us below, to introduce us to our quarters and be complimented on the thought and care he had bestowed in choosing them and fitting them up for the ladies' comfort especially. He himself lodged forward, in a small double cabin which he shared with Mr. Goodfellow.
So Palmerston, seated by the after-companion, had spent a great part of the morning in listening to disputes, and counting out money as soon as the disputes were settled.
He conducted them to the after-companion, where, repeating his caution, he stepped in front of the children and led the way down a narrow twisting staircase. At the foot of it he pushed open a door, and they gazed into a neat apartment, panelled with mirrors and bird's-eye maple.
At this time she learned to ride on horseback, her first exploit being to tame a colt of four years, the after-companion of many a wild scramble, who grew old and died in her service. Her grandmother becoming soon after disabled by a paralytic stroke, the alternation of this new exercise enabled Aurore to bear the fatigues of the sick-room without serious inconvenience.
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