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The bo'sun's mate Samuel Spraggons is me, friend Sam for short, called likewise Smiling Sam come, come, never scowl on Sam nobody never quarrels with the Smiler, I'm friends wi' everyone, I am, friend." "Why then loose the child!" says I. "Child? Ha, is't this little rogueling ye mean, friend?"
The muttered growl swept over our heads and died away into the distance, and there was a sudden silence. Then, in that quietness, came the bo'sun's voice. He was bidding us haste every one into the captain's cabin. As we moved to obey him, he ran to draw over the lid of the scuttle; and Josh went with him, and, together, they had it across; though with difficulty.
Then, after a pause, "My name's Jope, sir; Benjamin Jope, of the Bedford, seventy-four, bo'sun's mate now paid off." The clergyman, at first taken aback by the sudden question, recovered his smile. "And mine, sir, is Whitmore the Reverend John Whitmore bound just now in the direction of Dock. Can I serve you thereabouts?" Mr. Jope waved his hand towards the coach door. "Jump inside!
Sangree'll clean 'em in no time, and the Bo'sun's Mate " "Will fry them to a turn," laughed the voice of Mrs. Maloney, appearing on the scene in a tight blue jersey and sandals, and catching up the frying-pan. Her husband always called her the Bo'sun's Mate in Camp, because it was her duty, among others, to pipe all hands to meals.
For, though the very air was charged with strange emotions, every one talked quietly and naturally as with a definite desire to counteract unnecessary excitement. "I'll keep watch," said the plucky Bo'sun's Mate, "and meanwhile I find comfort in my work." She was busy with the sketch she had begun on the day after our arrival.
The others singing Maloney, the bustling Bo'sun's Mate, and Joan, that fascinating half-breed of undine and salamander all showed the effects of a life so close to nature; but in their case the change was perfectly natural and what was to be expected, whereas with Peter Sangree, the Canadian, it was something unusual and unexpected.
A roar of laughter on deck announced that Bob Lumsden had found something quite to his taste. "First-rate ha! ha! I wonder if it's all true." "Hold your noise there," cried Hawkson; "who d'ee think can learn off a hymn wi' you shoutin' like a bo'sun's mate an' Duffy snortin' like a grampus?" "Ah, just so," chimed in Stubley, looking up from his board. "Why don't you let it out, David?
"I am quite certain I know what it is," he replied very low, for we heard the footsteps of Sangree approaching, "though I am not so certain yet as to the best means of dealing with it. But in any case it is not wise to leave precipitately " "Oh, Timothy, does he think it's a devil ?" cried the Bo'sun's Mate in a voice that even the Canadian must have heard.
But the next morning Joan repeated the story with additional and convincing detail. "Sounds of whining and growling woke me," she said, "and I distinctly heard sniffing under my tent, and the scratching of paws." "Oh, Timothy! Can it be a porcupine?" exclaimed the Bo'sun's Mate with distress, forgetting that Sweden was not Canada.
"Mine's Thomas Jackson, sir; and the bo'sun's name it is Fall Andrew Fall. And the passenger, sir? Steerage he was: he was called Mackay." "No, he warn't," said the boatswain, in a gruff tone. "Saving your presence, sir, his name was Smith." "Mackay," said the mate, with equal positiveness.
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