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'He was Blackbeard's bo'sun, John whispered huskily. 'He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid. 'That's him, said Peter. 'What is he like? Is he big? 'He is not so big as he was. 'How do you mean? 'I cut off a bit of him. 'You! 'Yes, me, said Peter sharply. 'I wasn't meaning to be disrespectful. 'Oh, all right' 'But, I say, what bit? 'His right hand.
He said nothing on being introduced to Pinnock; and when the globe-trotter came up and claimed acquaintance, defining himself as "Gillespie of Balliol," the stranger said he didn't remember him, and regarded him with an aspect of armed neutrality. After a sherry and bitters he thawed a little, and the Bo'sun started to cross-examine him. "Mr. Grant of Kuryong wired to me about you," he said.
I called some of them by name "Kumalik," "Bo'sun," "Captain," "Tinker" and they pushed their great heads against my legs and, I believe, recognized me. It was nearly two o'clock in the morning. We went immediately to the Post house and roused out Mr.
At this, I turned and sang out to the bo'sun that we were near to running upon the weed, and, in the same moment, he shouted to the helmsman to luff, and directly afterwards our starboard side was brushing against the great outlying tufts of the point, and so, for a breathless minute, we waited.
"Who cut him?" "Hanged if I know. The police say the lampman, but the lampman didn't leave the ship until after the bo'sun was done for, near as I can make it out. But the police have the lampman locked up for it, and I'm too busy to bother my head. First we know they'll want all the crew for witnesses. There's some monkey-business goin' on, too."
Hany gentleman as 'as 'ad the misfortin' to leave his music behind will oblige the ship's company with an ex-tem-por." "Long life to ye, bo'sun; it's a neat hand at a speech ye are, upon my conscience!" cried Dennis, over my shoulder, and then his arm was around it, shaking with laughter, as we were hurried along by the eager crowd. "He's a wag, that old fellow, too. Come along, little Jack!
Yet they returned a little before sundown having no water; for everywhere it was salt. Now the bo'sun, foreseeing that it might be impossible to come upon water, had set the man whom he had ordained to be our cook, to boiling the creek water in three great kettles.
The Count and his son were eagerly awaiting their coming, and welcomed them warmly as they mounted the side, while, casting off his show of indifference, the skipper cast an admiring glance round the deck of the brig, and then gruffly exclaimed "Now then, sir, I want your bo'sun. But look here, can he parley English?"
'What's that, sez I. 'This, sez he, 'twixt his shut teeth, young sir. And then, under that there hellish, murdering piece of timber, the Cap'n sets his hand and arm his naked hand and arm, sir! In the name o' God! I sez, 'let it come, sir! 'And lose my Bo'sun? not me! sez he. Then, sir, I see his face go white and whiter.
Undaunted even then he kept them at bay with his rapidly whirling cutlass, till those who had fallen overboard had had time to climb into the boat; then he shouted, "All hands aboard the French brig!" "Ay, ay," was the answer, "we'll be with you, bo'sun. True Blue for ever! Hurrah!" Once more the undaunted seamen, in spite of cuts and slashes, and broken heads, were climbing up the brig's sides.
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