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Updated: June 8, 2025
When all these arrangements were completed, and the stores neatly ranged round the central division, which Ben Boltrope had further adorned with a rough deal table and some settles placed in the centre, the place presented quite a homelike appearance to the castaways.
Soon after Frank and Mr Meldrum had left the deck, Ben Boltrope, who was still in the wheel-house with the Norwegian, called out to Captain Dinks: "I think there's something wrong with the rudder, sir," he said. "Wrong with the rudder!" repeated the captain. "What do you mean?" and he came nearer to look himself at the steering gear.
At the same time another mutual "confidence game" was being played in a different part of the ship; but in this the understanding was between Mr Meldrum and Ben Boltrope, the ship's carpenter and ex-man-o'-war's- man. "Aye, aye, sir," said the latter when the two were parting on the main deck after the termination of their labours in the lower hold.
Boltrope appeared to be choking; he made an attempt to raise his exhausted frame on the couch; but fell back exhausted and dying, perhaps a little prematurely, through the powerful and unusual emotions that were struggling for Boltrope appeared to be choking; he made an attempt to raise his 'exhausted frame on the couch; but fell back exhausted and dying, perhaps a little prematurely, through the powerful and unusual emotions that were struggling for utterance.
Staggering to my feet, I rushed in my scanty apparel to the deck, where Captain Boltrope was just then engaged in receiving the Governor's wife and daughter. The ladies shrieked; the youngest, a beautiful girl, blushed deeply. Heeding them not, I sank at his feet, and, embracing them, cried: "My father!" "Chuck him overboard!" roared Captain Boltrope.
Those seas are breaking over her with frightful force, judging by the amount of surf they send up, and they must soon make an end of her!" "I hope it'll calm down a bit, sir," said Ben Boltrope. "I'm nervous about them timbers for the roof of the house." "Be aisy with you, man," put in Mr McCarthy. "Sure an' all the anxiety in the worruld won't dhrive a pig to market!
"O, very good, sir!" screamed Captain Boltrope, rubbing his hands and absolutely capering about the deck with rage. "O d n you! Of course you shall! O ho! the gunner's daughter! O, h ll! this is too much! Boatswain's mate!" Before I well knew where I was, I was seized, borne to an eight-pounder, tied upon it and flogged!
The next morning we heard that Nips was in the surgeon's hands, with a bad wound in the fleshy part of his leg, and that the auger had not struck claret. "Now, Pills, you'll have a chance to smell powder," said Briggs as he entered the cockpit and buckled around his waist an enormous cutlass. "We have just sighted a French ship." We went on deck. Captain Boltrope grinned as we touched our hats.
The next morning we heard that Nips was in the surgeon's hands, with a bad wound in the fleshy part of his leg, and that the auger had NOT struck claret. "Now, Pills, you'll have a chance to smell powder," said Briggs as he entered the cockpit and buckled around his waist an enormous cutlass. "We have just sighted a French ship." We went on deck. Captain Boltrope grinned as we touched our hats.
This was on account of the current and the tideway neutralising each other, instead of being both in their favour, as Mr Meldrum had expected; so, in order to fight against the drawback, he ordered Ben Boltrope to get up a sail on one of the studding-sail booms which was rigged as a yard across the mizzen topgallant mast that had been stepped in the centre of the platform.
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