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"I am very willing to oblige you in everything," said Jack, laughing; "but I would rather not have the pleasure of carrying him and his `woman kind, as he calls them, back to Simon's Bay." The boats were busily employed in landing the soldiers, who bade an affectionate farewell to their blue-jacket brethren. Most of the officers had landed; the major and his family still remained.
A bullet had ploughed through his left cheek, and he was bleeding profusely. "Stand aside, old man," and the officer held up a warning hand to old Jack. "It is folly for you to attempt to interfere." And then a blue-jacket, almost as old as the trader himself, placed himself between father and son.
Little Turtle called a council. Some of his men were dubious. "It is no use fighting that man. His eye is never shut," they complained. Little Turtle himself was dubious. The council debated upon whether to try another "Saint Clair" surprise, or to choose their ground, and wait. Blue-jacket the Shawnee was for fighting. "Listen," spoke Little Turtle.
Breathless, I clambered on board, a smart blue-jacket with "HMS Blazer" printed in gold letters on the ribbon of his straw hat, handing me the sidelines of the accommodation ladder, which reached far enough down for me to step on to it from the gunwale of the sampan; and when the lieutenant in command of the gunboat, a handsome fellow like Mr Mackay, addressed me, I could not at first speak from emotion.
This musical selection means that your Secretary of the Navy is on the waters, and I must be in my place with the rest of the officers to receive him and his staff with all ceremony. Please promise you will not leave this spot till I return: I implore you." "Better put the blue-jacket on guard over us," laughed Katherine. "By Jove! a very good idea."
Some blue-jacket small-arm men and soldiers being then disembarked, they drove the Chinese from every one of their positions, spiked the guns, and burnt the barracks and other buildings. This was the last hostile proceeding of the British in the year 1840.
"At any rate," said Stair, "killing a blue-jacket or an exciseman will do us no good, and I am for firing blanks except in the very last extremity of course, if it is our life or that of another man, I think we owe it to ourselves to see that the funeral is the other fellow's!" Stair Garland slept that night outside, wrapped in his plaid, with Whitefoot crouched in the corner of it.
Then he, too, leaped to the deck, and a stocky cockney blue-jacket poked his nose over the rail. "Damn my eyes!" said this individual. "'Ere's a bloomin' mess!" "Who is that person?" Captain Desmond O'Hara demanded, pointing to the semiconscious Mr. Henckel, who was moaning and saying things in his mother tongue. "That," said Mr.
Nothing was passed over. Every brawny, powerful, broad-shouldered blue-jacket there was, in nautical phraseology, overhauled from stem to stern. A comment here, a word of approval there, or a quiet reprimand, was all that passed, but, being uttered to the attentive ears of the responsible officers, this was sufficient.
Alter a while, I got a direction to a boarding-house near the Yard, and went to it, with a message from my old shipmates that they would be responsible for the pay. But to this the man would not listen; he took me in on my own account, saying that no blue-jacket should be turned from his door, in distress. Here I staid and got a comfortable night's rest.
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