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Updated: June 21, 2025
We lay awhile with hearts too full for words; then the pinnace drew near, and the mate called the men. All there but one! "Gregson!" . . . No Gregson! The bosun knew. He had seen what was Gregson lying still under the wreck of the topmost spars. The captain and mate conferred long together. We had no sail in the gig, but the larger boat was fully equipped.
Then outside, and to the stables a massive red brick pile, creeper-covered, where Monarch and Garryowen, and Bosun, and the buggy ponies, looked placidly from their loose boxes, and asked for and got apples from Jim's pockets.
I know your kind that bully and starve your crew, and won't have a man on your ship that you can't bully and starve. And so you set your bully bosun to do me do me to death, if he had to. And when he's not clever enough nor able enough, you'd put me in irons in irons here on the high seas out here where no law can get you!" The first officer was now on the deck beneath the pump-man.
We had a cap'n as had sailed the sea for forty years an' a mate who had been across the ocean sixteen times. Well, sir, sure as I'm here we struck some thick weather with the Johnny Jackson tumblin' an' tossin' good, and the cap'n an' the mate took seasick an' was sick near the hull trip. Then the second mate got down, an' the bosun, an' then the cook, an " "The cabin boy " suggested Tom.
"We must leave further search till morning," muttered the captain; and giving his order, signal lamps were run up to recall the boats; and before very long they were answered, and the lanthorns of Bosun Jones' boat could soon after be seen heading slowly for the ship, the second boat following her example a few minutes later.
The on'y warrant officer 'oo hadn't a look in so far was the Bosun. So 'e stated, all out of 'is own 'ead, that Chips's reserve o' wood an' timber, which Chips 'ad stole at our last refit, needed restowin'. It was on the port booms a young an' healthy forest of it, for Charley Peace wasn't to be named 'longside o' Chips for burglary. "'All right, says our Number One.
"Well, here we are pointing out again, thank the Lord!" he said to his particular friend and crony among the crew, the carpenter, Richard Spicer, a battered old shell-back, like himself. "There is only one place from which I like to see the land, Richard!" "And where is that, bosun?" "Over the stern, as now, mate, when we 're going free with a fair wind, and leaving it fast behind.
"But why does the bosun hound him so? This man was no sooner aboard than the bosun began to crowd him." "Did he? And perhaps you think the bosun of an oil-tanker's goin' to hand a man a type-written letter every time he wants to have a word with him. He's a good bosun. He knows his business, and he saves me a lot of trouble."
"We must rig up a storm staysail, I suppose," replied Mr Mackay, smiling at the other's remark. "Try one on the mizzen staysail the smallest you've got. Ask Adams, he'll soon find one; and, mind you, send it up `wift' fashion, so as to lessen the risk of its getting blown away, bosun."
When the officer came sprawling down on the straw again, some feet away from his former position, he was pounced on by Joe and the bosun, who made short work of tying him up with his own sword strap. Meanwhile the rest of my comrades had run out of the cellar door, and joined me just in time to receive the charge of the six Frenchmen who had followed me from the house.
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