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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Do or die we allus does that when we're out asploring," he said, and with his sack over his shoulder, his broom-handle in his hand and his little Union Jack sticking out of the hole in the crown of his hat, he clambered up the crag and disappeared over the top of it.
"Nothing but glory. You just takes your Alping stock and your sleeping sack and your bit o' biscuit and away you go over crevaxes deeper nor Martha's gullet and mountains higher nor Mount Blank and never think o' nothing but doing something that nobody's never done before. My goodness, yes, boy, that's the way of it when you're out asploring. 'Glory's waiting for me' says you, and on you go."
One loud clang I heard, and then came a crash and a crack, and then silence. "What is it?" I cried, but at first there was no answer. "Have you hurt yourself?" "We never minds a bit of hurt . . . we never minds nothing when we're out asploring!" Meantime on shore there was a great commotion.
"Some girls Jimmy Christopher's sister and Nessy MacLeod and Betsy Beauty would be frightened to come asploring, wouldn't they?" "Wouldn't they?" I said, and I laughed, though I was trembling down to the soles of my shoes.
That was the last straw, and the tears leapt to my eyes, but Martin went on whistling and singing and ringing the big bell as if nothing had happened. The darkness deepened, the breath of night came sweeping over the sea, the boom of the billows on the rock became still more terrible, and I began to shiver. "The sack!" cried Martin. "We allus sleeps in sacks when we're out asploring."
We never minds a bit of hungry when we're out asploring." I did not know then, what now I know, that my little boy who could not learn his lessons and had always been in disgrace, was a born gentleman, but my throat was thick and my eyes were swimming and to hide my emotion I pretended to be ill. "I know," said Martin. There was one infallible cure for that, though milk!
We don't mind a bit of wet when we're out asploring." My throat was hurting me again and I could not speak, but without waiting for me to answer he coiled the rope about my right arm, and told me to stay where I was, and hold fast to the boat, while he climbed the rock and took possession of it in the name of the king.
When he mentioned one of his scientific experts I inquired "Is he any good?" And after he had told me that he hoped to take possession of some island in the name of the English crown, and raise the Union Jack on it, I said: "Do or die, we allus does that when we're out asploring." How we laughed! He laughed because I laughed, and I laughed because he was laughing.
"We'll just signal back to the next base we call them bases when we're out asploring." I understood from this that he was going to ring the bell which, being heard on the land, would bring somebody to our relief.
But it was too late for him to do anything, for the boat had already drifted six yards away, and just when I thought he would have shrieked at me for cutting off our only connection with the shore, he said: "Never mind, shipmate! We allus expecs to lose a boat or two when we're out asploring."
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