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"Sartinly not, Cap'en Billings," responded Sam; "them's jest my sentiments! I suppose as you'll be a'most out of the Channel by mornin', if the wind holds?" "Aye, we ought to be off Ilfracombe soon after sunrise, the pilot says. Will you like to go ashore when we drop him there, eh?" "That'll do nicely, Cap'en," replied Sam.
But, as I were a-tellin' ye, sor, in comes Bridget whilst I were talkin' to the jintleman behoind the bar at the rendywoo. I were jist axin' what the cap'en tells me to axe him; an' `Mike, says she, cordial like, `have a partin' glass wid me fur the sake of the ould country as ye're abut to lave.
"One of the fellows told me the parson has never been to sea before; so, my boy, of course, he doesn't know he's got to wait till the cap'en gives the order for service to be held. Those shore Johnnies have got a lot to be knocked into them! He doesn't know Farmer as we do, or he'd fight shy of taking a liberty with him!"
"About ship! about ship! down with the helm!" he shrieked out in a voice of terrific loudness. "All right no fear, cap'en," cried the old mate, staggering up to him. "I've taken very good care of the barkie." At that instant a loud, grating, crushing sound was heard, and the brig seemed to be about to spring over some obstacle in her way. Then she stopped.
"Say, Cap'en, hev ye took to nursin' that boy ez ye seems so fond of?" "Shut your jaw, or I'll shut it for you!" replied Black. "Is the boy your affair?" "He's the affair of all of us, I calcerlate, an' some of us wishes to know particler if he's signed or no." Black was smothered in anger, but he showed it only with that terrible growling of the voice and his horrid calmness.
"Ahoy there, forrad!" he shouted in stentorian tones that rang fore and aft like a trumpet. "Bo'sun, send the hands aft." "Say, cap'en," sang out Mr Fosset from the bridge, "shall I call up the fellows down below in the stoke-hold, sir?" "Aye. Ring the engine-room gong. I want every man-jack on deck that Mr Stokes can spare; tell him so."
"Hullo, Dick!" said the latter, when the young yachtsman had approached near enough for them to speak without getting to each other. "What are you going to do aboard?" "To clean out the yacht ready for another trip, Master Bob. The Cap'en told me to get her done afore he come back."
"Nothing could have been more sensible, you see, cap'en; and Ching Wang's got his head screwed on straight." "And where is this boat ye're going in?" "Sampan, go long now," returned Ching Wang, motioning with his hand to the water below the stern. "Go long chop chop, soon lilly pijjin come down topside."
"For God's sake don't kill me, cap'en!" shrieked the young fellow, in an agony of terror, throwing himself upon his knees, and begging for mercy; "I have served you long and faithfully, and robbed as many miners as any man in the gang." "That certainly should entitle him to mercy," whispered Mr. Brown, giving me a nudge with his elbow, as though I was asleep.
"Ye see, the cap'en he got killed with a spar when the blow fust come on, and Jim Marvyn he commanded; and Jeduthun says that he seemed to have the spirit of ten men in him; he worked and he watched, and he was everywhere at once, and he kep' 'em all up for three days, till finally they lost their rudder, and went drivin' right onto the rocks.
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