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Updated: May 2, 2025
There, almost word for word, was printed the story Cap'n Amazon had told her that evening about the black man and the black dog! The finding of one of Cap'n Amazon's amazing narratives of personal prowess in the old scrapbook shocked Louise Grayling. The mystery of the thing made alert her brain and awoke in the girl vague suspicions that troubled her for hours.
"There's one Silt ain't afraid of salt water, whatever Cap'n Abe may be!" "Will you come, Cap'n Am'zon?" called the skipper of the life-saving crew. "I'm coming," mumbled the storekeeper, and held up his arms that Milt Baker might fasten the belt about his body. Afterward Milt was fond of declaring that the look on Cap'n Amazon's face at that moment prophesied the tragedy that was to follow.
Amazon's bolted, and Cottingham's asked me to catch her! If you had a bone, Dixie, she'd simply " Mrs. Dixon was gone. She disapproved exceedingly of Christian's rôle as kennel-boy, but as, since Christian's first birthday, she had never refused her anything, she was not prepared on her tenth to break so well-established a habit. "I dunno in the world why Mr.
Besides, he seemed to have achieved Cap'n Amazon's manner of "looking down" a too inquisitive inquirer into personal affairs and refusing to answer. Because of this, perhaps, nobody was ever known to ask the storekeeper why he had filled his sea chest with bricks and useless dunnage when he shipped it to Boston. That mystery was never explained.
Bing out and tour, ye auld devil, and see that nobody has scented; that's a' you're good for now. 'Is that a' I am good for now? said the indignant matron. There was here another laugh at the expense of the hero who had received this amazon's assistance. 'Here, mother, said one of the sailors, 'here's a cup of the right for you, and never mind that bully-huff.
But there was that in Cap'n Amazon's businesslike manner and speech that impressed Mrs. Baker as it had Lawford Tapp that here was a very different person from the easy-going, benign Cap'n Abe. Mandy sniffed, jerked her sunbonnet forward, and departed with her purchases. Cap'n Amazon's quick eye caught sight of Louise's amused face in the doorway.
But it is Amazon's work this, no doubt of it, and the first fine pre-Raphaelite picture of battle we have had; profoundly interesting, and showing all manner of illustrative and realistic faculty.... The sky is most tenderly painted, and with the truest outline of cloud of all in the Exhibition; and the terrific piece of gallant wrath and ruin on the extreme left, when the cuirassier is catching round the neck of his horse as he falls, and the convulsed fallen horse, seen through the smoke below, is wrought through all the truth of its frantic passion with gradations of color and shade which I have not seen the like of since Turner's death."
Amazon's trustees found the affairs in great disorder, and were looking high and low for the will.
When our meal was over, a few bottles from a small stock of carefully- hoarded wine, from the Amazon's stores, were produced, and at Ella's especial request, we four men proceeded to regale ourselves, and assist digestion with "the fragrant weed." The chief topic of conversation was, of course, the arrangements to be made for a speedy departure from the island.
Breathlessly and, almost fearfully she read it to the end the very story of the murdered albatross and the sailors' superstitious belief in the bird's bad influence, as she had heard Cap'n Amazon relate it to Aunt Euphemia Conroth. She laid down the book at last in amazement and confusion. There was no doubt now of Cap'n Amazon's mendacity.
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