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In fact the first glance at the gunner's round good-humoured face told that there was neither envy nor ambition there. Give him enough to eat, his daily portion of cold water grog, and his 'bacco, and, again to use his own words, he "wouldn't change berths with the king hissen." "Easy there, Billy messmet," growled Tom Tully; "avast hauling quite so hard. My tail ain't the cable."
"Avast, ye villains!" he hotly exclaimed, prudence and moderation losing their influence, under the excitement of scornful anger; "ye cut-throat, lubberly villains! That ye are villains, is to be proved, in your teeth, by your getting your sailing orders from the devil; and that ye are lubbers, any man may see by the fashion in which ye have rove this cord about my throat.
"But his insolence, uncle; his gross insolence towards you his inventions, his exaggerations of the truth?" "Avast, there avast, there none of that, Master Charlie; Jack couldn't do anything of the sort; and I means to say this, that if Jack was here now, I'd stick up for him, and say he was a good seaman.
"Well, vastly well," says he, laughing, "prodigious well for a young man who has as many holes in him as have you. Do you hear him, Mrs. Manners?" At that last word, I popped up to look about the room, and the doctor caught hold of me with ludicrous haste. A pain shot through my body. "Avast, avast, my hearty," cries he.
She was not aware that her man of business had already had these resources appraised, and that they no more belonged to her at that moment than if they had been part of the personal estate of the celebrated man in the moon. Still the Captain gazed at her in stolid silence. "Even my personal wardrobe," proceeded Mrs Stoutley, beginning again to weep, "I will gladly dis " "Avast!
Their hardness of heart came not from God, but the Prophet. They were only carrying out the edicts of their "priests of a bloody faith." In vain did the old man-o'-war's-man cry out "belay" and "avast". In vain did he "shiver his timbers", and appeal against their scurvy treatment by looks, words, and gesture. These seemed only to augment the mirth and spitefulness of his tormentors.
"Avast!" roared the sailor "nay, I don't mean they said 'Avast, that's what I says. Don't you int'rup' older folks, as is talking to you for your good. Mebbe you do know what the frogs said, but it won't hurt you to hear it agen. The frogs said I mean croaked out 'Avast!" "Why! you told us the frogs didn't say 'Avast," cried the boy. "Did I? Ay! so I did.
"Avast there, old fellow; you means not the head of a 'possum, but a beaver: but that 'ere's all nat'r'l enough, and easily 'counted for; but you hav'n't told us whose ghost it was, after all." "No; the captain made such a spring to the gunwale, as frighted it all out of my head: but come closer, Mr. Mullins, and I'll whisper it in your ear. Hark! what was that?"
"And you have once in your life passed a holy church in Cape-Town, where you doubtless overheard a holy parson addressing his hearers as his beloved fellow-creatures, have you, cook! And yet you come here, and tell me such a dreadful lie as you did just now, eh?" said Stubb. "Where do you expect to go to, cook?" "Go to bed berry soon," he mumbled, half-turning as he spoke. "Avast! heave to!
So, be cheery, my lads! may your hearts never fail! While the bold harpooner is striking the whale! 2ND NANTUCKET SAILOR. Avast the chorus! Eight bells there! d'ye hear, bell-boy? Strike the bell eight, thou Pip! thou blackling! and let me call the watch. I've the sort of mouth for that the hogshead mouth. Eight bells there below! Tumble up!
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