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"Starboard watch, ahoy!" cried Mr Brymer, cheerily. "How are you, Miss Denning?" but before she could reply the mate was up with us. "Thank you for keeping watch so well. Any idea what time it is? we hadn't been asleep long, I suppose." Mr Denning uttered a little laugh. "It must be close upon morning," he said. "Morning? Impossible! What do you say, Miss Denning?"
Rebecca gasped and clinched her hands fiercely on her bag and umbrella. "Serving-maid!" she cried. "Ahoy whoop room! Yi ki yi!" A swarm of small white animals ran wildly past them from behind, and after them came a howling, laughing, scrambling mob that filled the street. Someone had loosed a few score rabbits for the delight of the rabble. There was no time for reflection.
“That’s just what I’d give a million dollars and ten cents to know!” exploded Eph. “Gunboat, ahoy!” he shouted, some twenty seconds later. “’Farnum,’ ahoy!” “I half believe, sir,” Eph rattled on, “that my two comrades, Mr. Benson and Mr. Hastings have been tricked, in some way, and carried out to sea on that knockabout. They’d have been back from shore by this time, if nothing had happened.”
His gray eyes, firm lips, square chin, and broad shoulders had been familiar to me ever since I could remember. As he was rowed briskly to the ship, I waved to him and called out, "O Roger ahoy!"
The helm was put up, as the men, perceiving their imminent danger, climbed upon the guns to look if the vessel altered her course; but no down she came, and the head-sails of the Utrecht having been carried away, to their horror they perceived that she would not answer her helm, and pay off as they required. "Ship ahoy!" roared Philip through his trumpet but the gale drove the sound back.
Not a bad idea that, by Jove! I've tried it." "Do you think it would work?" asked Bobby, scanning his finely chiseled profile as eagerly as if she were consulting the Delphic oracle. "No harm in trying. Keep him on tenter-hooks, at any rate." "Ship ahoy!" came in joyous tones from Andy Black as he rounded the corner of the saloon, clinging to his cap. "Been looking for you all over.
He had almost decided to lower and man one of the whale-boats and begin towing the brig to the eastward so as to clear the southern horn of the projecting reef, when he heard the sound of oars through the darkness, and then came a loud hail. "Ship ahoy, there!" "Hallo, who are you?" he cried. "White trader from Ponapé." "All right, come alongside."
There was Collins, who was a wondrous adept at "daping, dapping, or dibbling" with a grasshopper, and who once brought in a string of trout which he laid out head to tail on the grass before the house in a line of beauty forty-seven feet long. A mighty bass voice had this Collins also, and could sing, "Larboard Watch, Ahoy!"
"You can take a drink before you go. Steward! Ahoy there, steward!" "Yessir," said that active mulatto, springing out of his cabin. "Yessir; I hears yo', cap'n." "What'll you have?" asked Thompson, addressing the mate. Trunnell scratched his big bushy head a moment, and then suggested that a bottle of the ginger pop which the steward had in the pantry would do for him.
I WAS wakened indeed, we were all wakened, for I could see even the sentinel shake himself together from where he had fallen against the door-post by a clear, hearty voice hailing us from the margin of the wood: "Block house, ahoy!" it cried. "Here's the doctor." And the doctor it was. Although I was glad to hear the sound, yet my gladness was not without admixture.
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