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After a while he ceased from these idle demonstrations; and, planting himself firmly, he raised his rifle muzzle towards me, and cried out: "Come off that log, and fetch your blue-skin with you! Quick, damn yer! Come off that log! Another minnit, an' I'll plug ye!"
But habituation to discipline is magical; and ere long an old forecastle-man was discovered elevated upon a match-tub, while, with a malicious grin, his barber a fellow who, from his merciless rasping, was called Blue-Skin seized him by his long beard, and at one fell stroke cut it off and tossed it out of the port-hole behind him.
"I can wake him up to a point," said Grimshaw, "that that abolition consul ha'n't learnt before; and if he'd stuck his old petition in Charles Sumner's breeches pocket instead of sending it to our legislature, he might have saved his old-womanish ideas from the showing' up that Myzeck gave 'em. It takes Myzeck to show these blue-skin Yankees how to toe the mark when they come to South Carolina.
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