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He had known his minister too well to invite him to partake of the refreshment with which he was regaling his friends. He was a small, rotund man, with shining, rosy cheeks, and a husky voice. "All well with you, Mr. Durnford?" "Yes, thank you, Mr. Caske; but I am afraid I intrude?" He was conscious of some constraint on the part of the company.
Caske, advancing, with his pipe in his left hand, and his right hand stretched out; "you have surprised us at our devotions again." "Which you are performing," rejoined the minister, "with an earnestness worthy of a nobler object of worship." Mr. Caske laughed huskily; and the minister turned to greet Messrs. Botterill and Kershaw, who were waiting, pipes in hand, to resume their seats. Mr.
"I fear," he resumed, "that I have interrupted some important business?" and he looked around with an air of enquiry. Mr. Caske airily waved his long pipe. "Oh no, sir," he said, lightly, "nothing of consequence" here he glanced at his friends "we were, ah talking about our friend, ah 'the Golden Shoemaker." Mr. Caske was secretly anxious to elicit the minister's opinion of "Cobbler" Horn.
How many kettles, the greatnesse and maner of them, and what mettall, and whether they bee set on triuets or on furnaces for boiling of the traine oyle, and others. What quantitie of caske, and what sort of caske, and what number of hoopes and twigges, and how much thereof to be staued for the traine.
"Well, gentlemen," he now remarked quietly, "there is force in what you say." Mr. Caske and his two friends regarded their minister with a somewhat doubtful look. Mr. Caske seemed to think that Mr. Durnford's remark made it necessary for him to justify the attitude he had assumed with regard to "Cobbler" Horn.
Caske making a grievance of the fact that there had been left to him no occasion for benevolence. "It was nothing but blankets, and coals, and money," continued Mr. Caske. "And then the families he has picked out of the slums and sent across the sea! And it's said he'll pay anybody's debts, and gives to any beggar, and will lend anybody as much money as they like to ask." At this point Mr.
Hoskins his hoggs by setting his doggs on them and tearing their eares and other hurts, for which he is fined 100l. of tobacco and caske"; "that upon the death of Mr. Robte Sly there is a reliefe due to the lord and that Mr. Gerard Sly is his next heire, who hath sworne fealty accordingly," St.
The next morning there came vnto vs a boate from the shoare with a flagge of truce, wherein were three of the chiefe men of the Island, who agreed with my Lorde that hee should haue of them sixtie buttes of wine, and fresh victuals to refresh himselfe and his companie withall: but as for fresh water, they could not satisfie our neede therein, hauing themselues little or none, sauing such as they saued in vessels or cistrnes when it rayned, and that they had rather giue vs two tunnes of wine then one of water: but they requested that our souldiers might not come on shoare, for they themselues would bring all they had promised to the water-side, which request was graunted, we keeping one of them aboord with vs, untill their promise was performed, and the other we sent to shoare with our emptie Caske, and some of our men to helpe to fill, and bring them away with such other prouision as was promised: so the Margaret, Captaine Dauis his shippe, and another of Weymouth stayed ryding at anker before the Towne, to take in our prouision.
And what a fool he is from his own standpoint! When he has got rid of all his money, it will be doubly hard for him to go back to poverty again." Mr. Caske was speaking somewhat at random. "Don't you think, sir," he concluded, with a facetious air, "that Providence sometimes makes a mistake in these matters?" The question was addressed to the minister. "No, never!" exclaimed Mr.
Being thus cleare of some dangers, and gotten into deeper waters, but not without some losse: for wee had but one Cable and Anchor left vs of foure, and the weather grew to be fouler and fouler; our victuals scarse, and our caske and fresh water lost: it was therefore determined that we should goe for Saint Iohn or some other Iland to the Southward for fresh water.
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