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Now, you are a gentleman, Captin; you never pay, but you always give us notice. Ferdinand could not help smiling at Mr. Levison's idea of a gentleman. 'Well, what else can you do? 'Why, there is two hundred coming in to-morrow, said Mr. Levison; 'I can depend on that. 'Well, that is five. 'And you want fifteen hundred, said Mr. Levison.
A man at my elbow, who afterward appeared in the capacity of money-taker, whispered, "There's the captin" and on looking up the gangway, I saw "A man of middle age, In aspect manly, grave, and sage,"
There was no time for re-cappin'; so, bein' the nearest to the chargin' bear, the Archdeacon just drops the old gun an' runs for dear life around that fire with me an' the Captin followin' close behind him.
"And well we know how to guard it, captin!" cried the same ominous voice; and there was a buzz from the length of the company. The captain and the two subs. came together behind the marching line. "They seem a bit out of hand," murmured the captain. "Bedad," said the Galway boy, "they mean to scoot like redshanks." "They nearly broke when the blacks showed on the hill," said Grice.
I want rather a tolerable sum, and that is the truth; but I only want it for a moment. 'It is not the time, 'tis the money, said Mr. Levison. 'You know me and my pardner, Captin, are always anxious to do what we can to sarve you. 'Well, now you can do me a real service, and, by Jove, you shall never repent it. To the point; I must have 1,500L. 'One thousand five hundred pounds! exclaimed Mr.
Once having agreed to employ them, old Joe speedily became reconciled to the prospect of cheap labour, and worked his willing guests with a devouring energy. Before dawn had reddened the eastern sky a shout of "Hi, Captin!
"Wall, Captin', ef yon glasheer war to give off a berg, any sort of a big 'un, it mout be the means o' leavin' us 'ithout any boat at all." "But how?" "How? Why, by swampin' or smashin' the only one we've got, the which " "Thunder an' airthquakes! See yonder! The very thing we're talkin' 'bout, I vow!" No need for him to explain his words and excited exclamations.
And the divil a bitter chance any man of us all has of promotion thin yoursilf, Captin: for it'll be mighty strange if our fat Major doesn't git riddlid like a cullinder through and through with the bullits from the Ingians' rifles before we have quite done with this business, and thin you will have the rigimintal majority, Captin; and it may be that one Liftinint Murphy, who is now the sanior of his rank, may come in for the vacant captincy."
"It's the divil himself," said Phil Shehan, making the sign of the cross, half in jest, half in earnest: "for it isn't the captin at all, and who but the divil could have managed to clap on his rigimintals?" "No, it's an Ingian," remarked Dick Burford, sagaciously; "it's an Ingian that has killed the captain, and dressed himself in his clothes.
"Never seed nothin' like 'em in my life," said Chad, gravely. Morgan laughed and Richard Hunt rode on with them down the street. "Was that Captin Morgan?" asked Chad. "Yes," said the Major. "Have you heard of him before?" "Yes, sir. A feller on the road tol' me, if I was lookin' fer somethin' to do hyeh in Lexington to go to Captin Morgan." The Major laughed: "That's what everybody does."
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