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The paint-pots had altered everything; the figure-head was hidden with tarpaulin; the rigging, instead of being all ataunto, was what Smith called "nine bobble square," and one sail had been taken down and replaced by an old one very much tattered, so that up aloft we looked as if we had been having a taste of one of the typhoons which visit the Chinese seas.
"I'll put the bell on Johnny, and if Pink'll bobble that buckskin that's allus wantin' to wander off by hisself, I calc'late we kin settle down an' rest our bones quite awhile b'fore anybody needs to go on guard. Them ponies ain't goin' to stray fur off if they don't have to, after the groun' they covered t'day now I'm tellin' yuh! They'll save their steps."
"On course she is, and we is looking for her: but it's quite a different thing whether we finds her or not, 'specially when it gets dark; and if, as I suspects, it comes on to blow freshish there'll be a pretty bobble of a sea here at the turn of the tide. To be sure, we may stand over to Ryde and haul the boat up there for the night.
He pulled out in a bit of a bobble of a sea, not half as bad as this, and he started all his friends on the same butt-strap, and the plates opened like a furnace door, and I had to climb into the nearest fog-bank, while the boat went down." "Now that's peculiarly disgraceful," said the rivet. "Fatter than me, was he, and in a steamer not half our tonnage? Reedy little peg!
"Can't you take her where it's flatter?" he snarled. "I like a bit of a bobble myself, sir," answered Kit. "Calls himself a sailor!" sneered the other, and collapsed again. The frigate was drawing near, the lily flag of a Vice-Admiral of the White at her foretop-gallant mast-head. A tide of delicious tears surged up in the lad's heart as he beheld her. She was England; she was his own.
And I sure lose mine this trip. Why, folks all over the country will josh me to death when they hear Panhandle Sears set me afoot on the big mesa. I reckon I'll have to kind of change my route till somethin' happens to make folks forget this here bobble." Another five miles of hot and monotonous plodding, and Cheyenne stopped and sat down. He pulled off his boots.
Suddenly my ears became conscious of a conversation carried on in a low tone around the corner of the shanty. "Old Moon-face'll have to git up and git in a minute," said a derrick man to a shoveller, born sailors, these, "there'll be a red-hot time 'round here 'fore night." "Well, there ain't no wind." "Ain't no wind, ain't there? See that bobble waltzin' in?"
"Ay, sir, to my mind it's sad to think that the sea should swallow up so many fine fellows as she does every year, and yet we couldn't very well do without her, so I suppose it's all right. Mind your head-sheets, Jerry, or she'll not come about in this bobble," he observed, as we were about to tack round the buoy. Having kept well to the eastward, we were now laying up to windward of the fleet.
"Oh, we did have a little bobble off Hatteras just a bobble." "Huh!" says I. "I don't expect you'd admit anything's happenin' until a boat begins to turn flip-flops. Do you know, Rupert, there's times when you make me sad in the spine. Honest, now, you didn't invent the ocean, did you?" But Rupert just stares haughty and walks off.
Everything's a bobble; turrible to see them sticks thrashin' 'round and slammin' things." "Didn't want no assistance, did they?" "No, sir; they got the fust line 'round the foremast and come off in less'n a hour; warn't none of 'em hurted." "Is it any better outside?" "No, sir; wuss. I ain't seen nothin' like it 'long the coast for years.
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