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"Mayhap not," said Bluenose, taking a fresh quid of tobacco out of a brass box which he carried at all times in his waistcoat pocket; "but I expect an enemy from seaward to-night who'll be oncommon glad to make your acquaintance, no doubt!" Here the Captain chuckled, engulfed his fresh quid, and proceeded to explain the nature of their errand.
On board the "Nancy," Bax and Bluenose had some suspicion that something was brewing, but whether a "whole gale," or "half a gale," or a "stiff breeze," they could not be expected to divine, not being possessed of supernatural gifts. Had they been possessed of a good barometer they would have been able to foretell what was coming without supernatural gifts; but Messrs.
I guess if a Bluenose was to go to one of our free and enlightened citizens, and tell him Nova Scotia was intersected with rivers and brooks in all directions, and nearly one quarter of it covered with water, he'd say, 'Well, I'll start right off and see it, I vow, for I guess I'll larn somethin'. I allot I'll get another wrinkle away down east there.
The Americans were pushing their masterful way into every sea. The rush to California was drawing eager fleets of Yankee, Bluenose, and St Lawrence vessels round the Horn. India, China, and Australia were drawing other fleets round the Cape. The American clippers threatened to oust the slower 'Britishers' and throw the comparatively minor Canadians into the shade.
There chanced at the time to be a certain small collier lying in the downs, awaiting a fair wind to carry her into the port of London. Black as a chimney from keelson to truck, she was as like to a butterfly as a lady's hand is to a monkey's paw. The skipper of the "Butterfly" was a friend of Bluenose, and knew Tommy.
But there is a different tale to tell when the tonnage outran the Bluenose ability to man it, and Dutchmen, Dagos, miscellaneous wharf-rats, and 'low-down' Britishers had to be taken on instead. If the crew was mixed and the officers Bluenose there was sure to be trouble of graduated kinds, all the way up from simple knock-downs to the fiercest gun-play of a real hell ship.
It was the latter circumstance which turned his nose purple; procuring for him, as well as entailing on his son, the name of Bluenose, a name which our Captain certainly did not deserve, seeing that his nose was fiery red in colour, perhaps a little too fat to be styled classic, but, on the whole, a most respectable nose.
Bluenose don't want it: it would only bother him if I put it in his way. "This is all I've got to say: The old house ain't worth much, but such as it is, it's yours, or it may go the same way as the guineas. "Now, Bax, may God bless you, and make you one of His own children, through Jesus Christ. My heart warms to you for your own sake, and for the sake of her whose name you bear. Farewell.
"That's just wot you've got nothin' to do with," replied Bluenose, resuming his pipe, which, in the ardour of his discourse, he had removed from his lips, and held out at arm's length before him. "Well, I have not much to do with going to the bottom," said Bax, laughing. "But where's Tommy? oh! here you are. Have you attended to orders?" "Blankits, hot, just bin sent in.
"But if," said Bax, "Long Orrick said he would run to Pegwell Bay, which is three or four miles to the nor'ard o' this, and resolved that he would not go to Fiddler's Cave, which is six miles to the s'uth'ard, why should you go to the very place he's not likely to be found at?" "Because I knows the man," replied Bluenose, with a wink of deep meaning; "I knows him better than you do.
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