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Updated: September 21, 2025
"Hullo, bosun! Come in to forage eh?" he cried, with his mouth still full and his jaws wagging away, "Bring yourself to an anchor, old ship; and bear a hand." "Thank ye kindly, Misther Saunders; I will sorr, savin' y'r prisince," said Tim Rooney, seating himself, however, on the other side of the table close to the end of the passage way by which we had entered.
"N-no, Jem; but but somehow There, don't say any more about it now." Bosun Jones was right in his hint. The captain forgot all about Don's offence as soon as he was comfortable and rested.
Cappy Ricks allows me the luxury of a third mate whenever I run across a young fellow that appears to be worth a whoop in hell, so grab your duds, and go aft, and don't bring any cockroaches with you. I'll dig up a bosun among the squareheads." "Thank you, sir." "Name?" "Mr. Peasley, sir."
But, of course, he'll have to know whereabouts it is afore he can navigate the ship to it; and now that your pore father's um no longer aboard, I reckon that you're the only one who can say what's the latitood and longitood of it." "But that's just what I can't do, bosun," answered Billy. "I know what the latitude of it is, but the longitude's another matter.
By mid-afternoon, in a huge sea, with the wind after its last shift no more than a stiff breeze, the Tongan bosun sighted a schooner bottom up. The Uncle Toby's drift took them across the bow and they could not make out the name; but before night they picked up with a small, round-bottom, double-ender boat, swamped but with white lettering visible on its bow.
Kieran's left went into the ribs crack! and Kieran's right caught him on the cheek-bone and laid it open as if hit with a cleaver. "Devil take it!" exploded Kieran, "I meant that for your jaw. It's this slippery tarpaulin." He slid his foot back and forth on the black-tarred canvas. "The cook's been dropping some of his slush on it, and you, bosun, didn't see to it that it was cleaned.
The after-rail of the chart-room deck looked almost directly down the hatch whereon the fight was to take place. As Noyes was taking his position by the rail he guessed that the bosun must have just said something which pleased the crew, for most of them were still laughing heartily. Kieran, on a camp-stool, waited for the laughter to simmer down. He fixed a mocking eye on the bosun.
"I had left the bosun in charge, and told him to get the hatches off and begin to get up the cargo as soon as he had stowed the sails and made all tidy; for I had not waited for that, but had rowed ashore as soon as the anchor was dropped.
Captain Gillespie was bothered, thinking he could not hear aright. "Joe Fergusson?" he called back. "I don't know any man of that name, or anything like it, who signed articles with me, and is entered on the ship's books. Pass the word forrud for the bosun where is he?"
The bosun was quick-witted enough to take my cue, and, pointing to the captain, whose reputation as the most violent of the deserters was clearly established, he made through his bandages a series of grunts and roars which proved to the maire's satisfaction that his jaw was very seriously damaged.
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