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"Help yourself to a belayin' pin, Bart, an' knock 'em on the heads if they try to come aboard," Mr. Gibney ordered nonchalantly. "Do I understand there is a steamer at hand, Mr. Gibney?" the master of the Chesapeake queried. "There's an excuse for one, sir. The little vegetable freighter Maggie.
The owner of the Maggie shook his fist in impotent rage at their retreating backs. "You think you've suffered before," he snarled. "But I'll make you suffer some more, you big brute. I'll hurt you worse than if I caved in your head with a belayin' pin. I'll break your heart, that's what I'll do to you. You wait."
The cry and the plunge brought Guy Foster on deck instantly. He found the Captain holding on with all his might to the end of the rope, on which there seemed to be a tremendous strain. "Take a turn round that belayin' pin," gasped the Captain. Guy obeyed, and the moment his companion was relieved, he shouted, "All hands a-hoy!" It was unnecessary.
Say, Keziah Coffin, there was Mayos in this town and in this church afore the fust Daniels ever washed ashore; and they'll be here when the last one blows up with his own importance. I'm on that parish committee you understand? and I've sailed ships and handled crews. I ain't so old nor feeble but what I can swing a belayin' pin. Boss! I'll have you to know that no livin' man bosses me."
"Besides," added Desmond, "I shall probably make use of the boy who has been attending to me at the Goat and Compasses a clever little black boy of Mr. Diggle's." "Black boys be hanged! I never knowed a Sambo as was any use on board ship. They howls when they're sick, and they're allers sick, and never larns to tell a marlinspike from a belayin' pin." "But Scipio isn't one of that sort.
"Say! that wasn't any joke," Ikey whispered to the Irish lad. "Oi, oi! S'pose they had grappled for it and brought it aboard and found "Kennebunk" stamped on those iron belayin' pins we used for weights?" "Don't say a word!" urged Frenchy. "You bet I won't!" agreed Ikey. "Not even to Whistler and Al. We come pretty near putting our foot in it that time, Frenchy."
And she thinks she can keep that girl of hers out of the same kind of discipline that she had to take, that's the truth of it." "Cur'ous, ain't it?" ruminated Captain Smart. "A woman's bound to take it one way or 'nother; there seems to be more sorts of belayin' pins to knock 'em over with than they, any on 'em, kinder cal'late on at first." "So there be," assented Captain Phippeny.
And 'twould be hard to tell which thinks the most of you, Al. . . . Eh? Why, it's after half-past twelve o'clock! Olive'll be for combin' our topknots with a belayin' pin if we keep her dinner waitin' like this." As they were putting on their coats the captain spoke again. "I hadn't finished what I was sayin' to you when Labe came in," he observed.
"I got knocked out first thing there's the scar of it," and the captain put a finger again on the mark along his jaw which actually was a memento of contact with the cellar step when he was a child. "Belayin' pin. Knocked me inside out for Sunday. But I cal'late they didn't put the steel to me 'cause I'd been fairly decent to 'em comin' down from N'York.
Thus might one of the Hereford stots he resembled approach a green pasture. "If you ask the steward he'll bring you some belayin' tackle," he said. "I am a trifle crank just now," admitted Royson, "but when the wind freshens I'll take in a reef or two." Stump looked up at him. "You've put me clean, out of reckonin'. Never bin to sea, you say? Wot's yer name?" "King, Richard King."
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