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Updated: June 24, 2025
Such a sight had never been seen in Cornwall until that day, nor ever will be again. It lasted long, and for long the result was doubtful. "Th' little un can't hold out much longer, mun," cried one of the giants. "Cap'en's only playing with un yet."
"Fourteen years ago there was a ship cruisin' in the Pacific, jest off this range, that was ez nigh on to a Hell afloat as anything rigged kin be. If a chap managed to dodge the cap'en's belaying-pin for a time he was bound to be fetched up in the ribs at last by the mate's boots.
"Oh, I see now!" I exclaimed, a light suddenly flashing on me as to his meaning. "I must have fainted away and the doctor told you I was in a comatose state, eh?" "An' isn't that, sure, a comet, sor, as I tould ye!" cried the Irishman, triumphantly. "Hullo, here's Peters, the cap'en's stooard dodgin' about the gangway. I wondther what he's afther?"
"Boys," said Whitey, solemnly, "ef the cap'en hed struck a nugget, good luck might hev spiled him; ef he'd been chief of Black Hat, or any other place, he might hev got shot. But he's made his mark, so nobody begrudges him, an' nobody can rub it out. So here's to 'the cap'en's mark, a dead sure thing. Bottoms up." The glasses were emptied in silence, and turned bottoms uppermost on the bar.
There was a chap knocked down the fore hatch with a broken leg in the Gulf, and another jumped overboard off Cape Corrientes, crazy as a loon, along a clip of the head from the cap'en's trumpet. Them's facts. The ship was a brigantine, trading along the Mexican coast. The cap'en had his wife aboard, a little timid Mexican woman he'd picked up at Mazatlan.
And how's the cap'en's baby? Grown a young gal by this time, ain't she? 'What are you talking about, sez I; 'how should I know? He draws away from me, and sez,'D it, sez he, 'you don't mean that you' ... I grabs him by the throat and makes him tell me all.
"'Well, the cap'en's jest gone ashore; his dingy is yonder now, enemost to the landin'. You come out this evenin'. The cap'en's particular about strangers, but he's always to home of an evenin'. "'Who's this boat named after? "'The Lord knows, stranger; I don't. But I reckon the cap'en ken tell; he built her.
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