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For the boys' companies being on deck at the time of the accident, they both had their bugles on when they jumped overboard. "Our last upset was when that bargee canted us over at Eton, rather a different business that, Peter." "My shirt is not dry yet, Tom; but I shall put it on again, for the sun is too hot to be pleasant." Tom followed Peter's example.
Every moment he could spare from his engines he thrust the upper part of his body through the small hatchway, and rowed with his commander. "Ahoy, bargee!" he shouted, popping up like a jack-in-the-box, after a brief cessation of hostilities. "Don't take no notice of 'im," said the mate. "'E's got a bottle of brandy down there, an' he's 'alf mad."
He strode in haste to Old Jubilee's headstall and began to back him towards the boat. The woman gazed at him for a moment in mere astonishment, then stepped quickly to his side. "I didn' know," she stammered. "You don't look nor talk like a bargee." Here her voice came to a halt, but in the dusk her eyes appeared to question him. "Few of us are what we seem, ma'am," Mr. Mortimer sighed.
The barge did not anchor, because an anchor is not part of a canal-boat's furniture, but she was moored with ropes fore and aft and the ropes were made fast to the palings and to crowbars driven into the ground. "What you staring at?" growled the Bargee, crossly. "We weren't staring," said Bobbie; "we wouldn't be so rude." "Rude be blessed," said the man; "get along with you!"
Some of them were frankly and contentedly cynical; some were of a brutality compared with which the tastes and manners of a bargee would have seemed ladylike; some were as refined and sensitive as English old maids, though less scrupulous and much less shy; the one was as generous as an Irish sailor, the next was as mean as a Normandy peasant; some had offered her rivers of rubies, and some had proposed to take her incognito for a drive in a cab, because it would be so amusing and so inexpensive.
There was he, who should have been breasting the blue, or at any rate doing something salty and nautical, far out in the storms of that sea that the Germans call an Ocean, with the hurricane raging angrily in his whiskers and now and then wafting tufts of them aloft to white the halyards; there was he constrained to a command the duties of which however nobly he did them could be equally well carried out by any respectable bargee.
The good-humored one is a bargee on the Lyvern Canal. The other is one of the senior noblemen of the British Peerage. They illustrate the fact that Nature, even when perverted by generations of famine fever, ignores the distinctions we set up between men.
He now rushed into the scrimmage with no idea of fighting, and a valiant bargee singled him out as an easy prey, and aimed a heavy blow at him. Instinctively doubling his fists, Mr.
Bill the Bargee rose slowly and heavily. But his wife was a hundred yards up the road before he had quite understood what was the matter. Phyllis, shivering by the canal side, had hardly heard the quick approaching feet before the woman had flung herself on the railing, rolled down the bank, and snatched the baby from her. "Don't," said Phyllis, reproachfully; "I'd just got him to sleep."
The language of this gentle and refined scholar had become very peculiar. "There's a squelcher for you, my kivey," he said to the bargee, as he sent him sprawling. Then, turning round, he asked a townsman: "What do you charge for a pint of Dutch pink?" following up the question by striking him on the nose.
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