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Updated: May 11, 2025
As they drew near to Leo's favourite sporting-ground, a long flat island with several small lakes on it which were bordered by tall reeds and sedges, where myriads of ducks, geese, gulls, plover, puffins, and other birds revelled in abject felicity, Benjy asked his father what he had got in the box. "I've got somethin' in it, Benjy, somethin'."
First of all I must get the chest itself aboard the Island Queen. This means that I shall have to empty it and leave the gold in the cave, while I get the chest out by sea. When the chest is safely in the cabin of the sloop where it won't leave much room for Benjy and his master, I'm afraid I will take the bags of coin out by the land entrance.
The tree was so situated as to command a view of the building, and Uncle Benjy had managed to clamber up inside this natural fortification high enough to watch his residence through a hole in the bark, till, gathering from the words of occasional passers-by that the alarm was at least premature, he had ventured into daylight again.
Cheery and unmindful of himself, as Benjy was, this loss of locomotive power bothered him greatly. He had got a new object in his old age, and was just beginning to think himself useful again in the world. He feared much, too, lest Master Tom should fall back again into the hands of Charity and the women. So he tried everything he could think of to get set up.
"A hundred and fifty miles from the Pole," said Alf. "Less, less," said Leo, with an excited look. "We are not more," said the Captain slowly, as he took off his hat and wiped his brow, "not more than a hundred and forty miles from it." "Then we could be there in three days or sooner, with a good breeze," cried Benjy, whose enthusiasm was aroused.
Plaistow that some women can wear a wonderful gown and others ha!" "Dear Major Benjy," said she. "Cruel of you to poor Diva." But instantly her happiness was clouded again, for the Padre had a very ill-inspired notion. "What ho! fair Madam Plaistow," he humorously observed to Miss Mapp. "Ah! Peccavi! I am in error. It is Mistress Mapp. But let us to the cards!
When he was far enough out, the Captain and Leo raised the aerial monster with caution, grasping it by the shoulders, while Benjy held on to the tail.
Our explorations have been hitherto confined to one or two parts of it. We may yet find an ever-open entrance to this open Polar sea, and our ships may yet be seen sailing regularly to and fro over the North Pole." "Just so," said Benjy, "a North Pole steam line once a month to Japan and back first class accommodation for second class fares.
"You might have known I would be." "I did know." "I say, what a thundering lot of hair you've got. I like it." "Do you like what Auntie Adeline calls my new nose?" "Awfully." She meditated. "Jerrold, do you remember Benjy?" "Rather." "Dear Benjy... Do you know, I can hardly believe I'm here. I never thought I should come again." "But why shouldn't you?" "I don't know.
During this brief but thrilling period, the brothers Vandervell and Benjy Vane crouched close together beside the port bulwarks, partially screened from the falling ice by the mizzen shrouds. The Captain stood on the quarter-deck, quite exposed, and apparently unconscious of danger, the picture of despair.
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