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"Let's roll the cuss in the fancy collar," proposed one of the head-hunters, meaning me. "I'll stove yer slats if yer touch him," said Grits, and then resorted to appeal. "I s'y, carn't yer stand back and let a chap 'ave a charnst?" The head-hunters only jeered. And what shall be said of the Captain in this moment of peril?
''Ow can I? sez I. ''Ere'm I hout of a job these six months, lookin' fer work every dye an' carn't find it. Sezee, 'Come an' see me this hevenin' at me home, Noine, Frognall Stryte, 'e sez, an' " "That'll do for now. You borrow a pencil and paper and write it down and I'll read it when I've got more time; I never heard the like of it. This 'ouse hasn't been lived in these two years.
"I carn't say I was, Sir," said Tom, doubtfully. I could see that he had not gripped the Second Mate's meaning. "But you were!" said the Second, with some impatience. "It was blowing adrift, and I sent you up to shove a gasket round it." "Blowin' adrift, Sir?" said Tom, dully. "Yes! blowing adrift. Don't I speak plainly?" The dullness went from Tom's face, suddenly.
"No, sir," replied the lad; but, evidently did not anticipate anything very dreadful, for he grinned all over his face. "I carn't!" "I'm going to give you a new rig-out," went on the other. "Do you know what that is, eh?" "No, sir," again answered Dick, thinking though that the Captain perhaps meant something to eat. "I dunno." "Well, come in here and you shall see."
"I would rather join you in other, but a more genial, wet." "Gates, how long before we catch her?" I called. "I carn't measure her speed yet, sir, but should say we won't be far behind in an hour and a harf." "Then," Tommy announced, "we'll go below and drink to the safety of our sweet Princess for, unless I'm greatly mistaken, this day will see the finish of one good yacht!
"What, in case the ship is torpedoed or sunk by a mine?" I asked innocently, very perplexed. "I'm a medical man myself; but I never knew that bleeding people made them more buoyant!" "If you arsks me these 'ere questions, sir, I carn't spin no yarn," the sailor interrupted with a twinkle in his eye.
'Carn't abide them things, commented Elizabeth; 'they bust sometimes and blows folks up. 'We have no outside help, I continued. 'An' a good thing, too. One place I was in the char 'elped 'erself to things an' it was me who was blamed fer it. 'We have no gas-cooker. 'Well, that's all right, then. Don't understand 'em. Give me a proper kitchen range, that's all I ask. I looked up hopefully.
The spook of a cook carn't reach the spook of a baron there hany more than a scullery-maid can reach a markis 'ere. H'I tried that when the baron died and came over to the hother world, but 'e 'ad 'is spook flunkies on 'and to tell me 'e was hout drivin' with the ghost of William the Conqueror and the shide of Solomon. H'I knew 'e wasn't, but what could h'I do?"
"She gave him an affectionate slap, but he did not respond, and a few minutes afterwards, muttering some excuse, he rose and left her, and I followed him as he made his way towards the refreshment-room. At the door he met one of his pals. "'Hullo! was the question, 'wot 'a yer done wi' 'Liza? "'Oh, I carn't stand 'er, was his reply; 'she gives me the bloomin' 'ump. You 'ave a turn with 'er.
Lyte, however, is equal to the occasion, and calls to the reading signallers "Tell the fool to semaphore!" "He carn't," gasps the sergeant in a horrified whisper; "He's young, an' he don't know nothink but Morse." Lyte groans.
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