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"Avast there!" said Dummie, speaking under his breath; "if so be as you von't blab, I'll tell you a bit of a secret. "Ha!" said Paul, "then hang me if I know what to do!"
"Avast there! keep under the shelter of this rock," said a man's deep voice, in a subdued tone, "it won't do to run right into the mouths of these blackguards without a little reconnoitering." Our captain crept silently to the side from whence the voice proceeded and hailed them. "Hollo! here's a fellow up here, we had better settle him at once, lest he gives the alarm," said the deep voice.
What is there to tell? Nothing." Avast and belay there! Take in the topgallants, wind up the mizzenmast and reef the cleets! This is Tobias Wooden-Leg plowing his way through a high sea in Grand Avenue. Aye, what a night, what a night! The devil astride the jib boom, his tail lashing in the wind. "Pokker!" says Tobias, "fa'n ta mig. Hold tight and here we go!"
"My name is David Trimble," said I, "and I come from the mountains." He laughed. "Mr. David Trimble-from-the-mountains, who the devil am I?" "I don't know, sir," and I started to go away, not wishing to disturb him. "Avast!" he cried. "Stand fast. See that you remember that." "I'm not here of my free will, sir, but because my father wishes it. And I'll betray nothing." Then he stared at me.
"Oh, I shan't come down," said Rodd confidently; but as he was speaking the schooner gave a sudden pitch which sent the boy into the sailor's arms. "Avast there!" cried the man. "Steady, sir! Steady it is! There, let me stand you up again on your pins. You mustn't do that, or you'll have the lads thinking you're a himmidge, or a statty, a-tumbling off your shelf." "Thank you.
This was Marcy Gray. When his eye fell upon the double line of men in front of the house he made up his mind that the robbers had come out in full force this time. "Get out of that, or I will blow some of you to kingdom come!" said he, without a quiver in his voice. "One two " "Avast there!" exclaimed the master's mate.
When the landing-place was once more comparatively clear, he made his way towards it, across boats, and along planks, swearing at himself while he did so for an old fool. He shook Mary's shoulder violently. "D you, I ask you again where you're bound to? Don't sit there, stupid. Where are going to?" "I don't know," sighed Mary. "Come, come; avast with that story.
But, avast; here comes our old Manxman the old hearse-driver, he must have been, that is, before he took to the sea. He luffs up before the doubloon; halloa, and goes round on the other side of the mast; why, there's a horse-shoe nailed on that side; and now he's back again; what does that mean? Hark! he's muttering voice like an old worn-out coffee-mill. Prick ears, and listen!"
But even as he grasped the lever with his hand, he paused. "What now?" demanded the mate, his face tense with passion. "Hurry's the word, sir. Hurry!" The captain, however, turned and looked him in the eye. "You've counseled me to murder wholesale murder, Maclean. Avast there, man! Keep your mouth shut. This is my bridge, and I'll not hear another word from you."
Grown old, Tobias, eh? Sitting in a corner and mumbling over litanies." And it has always been like that since he came to Grand Avenue ten years ago. It has always turned out that Tobias takes off his white shirt and puts on his sailor's black sweater and fastens on his old wooden leg and follows the one on the window sill. Avast and belay! The night is still young and a sailor man's abroad.
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