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"All right," said Burridge, in a whisper; "I'll tell you all about it as soon as I'm safe inside again." He soon made his way up to the top of the hut, and getting through the hole replaced the thatch and bamboo rafters before he jumped down to the ground. "I was right," he said, "and made my way down to the harbour.
I was sitting one day in the loft of the comfortable sail-maker, who, by the way, was brother-in-law to Burridge, when I said to him: "I wish you'd tell me the details about Elihu. How did he come to be what he is? You ought to know; you've lived here all your life." "So I do know," he replied genially. "What do you want me to tell you?"
The pirates are carousing down by the huts on the shore, for I heard their voices singing and shouting, so I shall have a good chance of not being found out." Saying this Burridge glided away through the cocoanut grove by which the village was surrounded. His companions waited anxiously for his return.
By the same token but here the figure of aposiopesis is advantageous to me old Madam Burridge, of my lodgings, has sent me three large forks and one small, which I left behind. She forgot to send another of each. What is worse, I left behind me a three-faced seal, which I think I once showed you. It was enclosed in a black rough case.
"Do you think we ought to do anything about it," the trustee replied, "until Mr. Palmer returns?" Although Burridge saw no reason for waiting, the other trustees did, and upon that the board rested. Burridge was furious. By one fell stroke he was put in second place, a man who had to await the return of Palmer and that in his own church, so to speak.
Gleeson touched one flank of his horse with his heel, and rode close up to Burridge with the gun in his right hand. "His name is Burridge, and that's yourself. Everybody knows you, you old Scotch hound. You have as many cattle on the run with your brand on them as your master has.
You will judge how we fare ourselves by the way we treat you." As there was food enough to last for some time they naturally expected they should not receive another visit during the day. As soon, therefore, as they had satisfied their hunger, Burridge continued his examination of the roof, and found, by removing the bamboo rafters, he could without difficulty force his way out through it.
While the rest of the squadron returned to Jamaica, one vessel was left to cruise off the island, on the chance of Pearson and his followers, should they have been concealed on it, attempting to make their escape. When Jack arrived on board the "Venus," he found the two young midshipmen, Hawke and Lovatt, and the old quarter-master Burridge, who welcomed him warmly.
If you'll quit selling, I'll quit chewing it," and he looked as if he had set a fancy trap for his straw-balancing brother, as he held him to be. "It's a bargain," said Burridge on the instant. "It's a bargain!" And from that day on tobacco was not offered for sale in that store, although there was a large local demand for it.
A kangaroo was seen feeding about a hundred yards distant, and Gleeson dismounted and shot at it, but it hopped away unharmed. A few minutes afterwards, as the men were riding along at an easy walk, three other horsemen suddenly came past them at a gallop, wheeled about, and faced the fishermen. One was Burridge, a station manager, the other two were his stockmen.
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