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"Not at all absurd, Peter, but very absurd of you to talk without thinking: when did any one of his shipmates ever know Mr Chucks to do an unhandsome or mean action? Never and why? because he aspired to be a gentleman, and that feeling kept him above it.
I don't know how to deal in glittering generalities. A chap on the trail of truth has got to let generalities go by the board. The minute he tackles the living Little People he chucks theories and bucks conditions.
Jes' fer fun I follered him; an' when he got to the lake he stopped and looked all 'round, as ef to make sure there warn't nobody to see him, an' then he takes somethin', I couldn't see what, out from under his coat an' chucks it quick into the lake, an' then he started on a run down towards the street." "Couldn't you see what he threw?"
I walked in the evening on the forecastle, when I renewed my intimacy with Mr Chucks, the boatswain, to whom I gave a full narrative of all my adventures in France. "I have been ruminating, Mr Simple," said he, "how such a stripling as you could have gone through so much fatigue, and now I know how it is.
I did not remain long, as it was getting late, so I took a glass of the old gentleman's sour wine, and walked off, with a request from him to call again, the young lady paying me little or no attention during the time that I remained, or at my departure." "Well, Mr Chucks," observed I, "it appears to me that she was a very deceitful young person."
He watched Sammy Jay flying over to the Green Forest and screaming "Thief! thief!" as he flew. "I wonder now if that jay warned those chucks purposely," said he, as he scratched his head thoughtfully. If Peter Rabbit had been there, he could have told him that Sammy Jay did, for he knows all about Sammy Jay and his tricks. But Peter wasn't there.
"Mr Simple, a boatswain is an officer, and is entitled to a sword as well as the captain, although we have been laughed out of it by a set of midshipman monkeys. I always wore my sword at that time; but now-a-days, a boatswain is counted as nobody, unless there is hard work to do, and then it's Mr Chucks this, and Mr Chucks that.
'Now! says I, 'ef ther's any stuff in you, J. Judkins, let's see it! says I. And I chucks myself over the side o' the rock and grabs her with the boat-hook, and hauls her in. 'All together, I says. 'Now, my hearties! Yo heave ho! and I hed her up, and hauled her over the rocks and round under the lee of the p'int, before I stopped to breathe. How did I do it? Don't ask me, Jewel Bright!
He fairly hugged himself in delight, for you know Sammy Jay dearly loves to see other people in trouble. Then he thought of all the fun he had had watching those three little Chucks learn their lessons, and suddenly the thought of anything happening to them made Sammy Jay feel uncomfortable. Almost without stopping to think, he screamed at the top of his lungs: "Run, Johnny Chuck, run!
"Why, I beg leave to hint to you, sir, in the most delicate manner in the world," replied the boatswain, "that it must be with a double-wall and be d d to you don't you know that yet? Captain of the foretop," said he, "up on your horses, and take your stirrups up three inches." "Ay, ay, sir." "Mr Chucks," said the first lieutenant to the boatswain, "what blocks have we below not on charge?"
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