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Updated: June 1, 2025
I had not been on deck five minutes before she came up that is, was shoved up for she was so heavy that she could not get up without assistance. You know how elephants in India push the cannon through a morass with their heads from behind; well, my steward used to shove her up the companion-ladder just in the same way, with his head completely buried in her petticoats.
The cabin, where the two victims of a mutinous crew had retired for coolness, got more and more stuffy, until at length even the scorching deck seemed preferable, and the girl, with a faint hope of finding a shady corner, went languidly up the companion-ladder. For some time the skipper sat alone, pondering gloomily over the state of affairs as he smoked his short pipe.
Before she had time to tell him of his loss, he had sprung up the companion-ladder. The strangers were quickly in their boat, which, with rapid strokes, pulled back towards the speronara.
"Whatever may be the fault of the shawl, I fancy no one will reproach her ancles for thinness," murmurs a young Guard's man, as he peeps up the companion-ladder.
"I'll have to get another ship," said Dick, watching the small spindly figure as it backed down the companion-ladder. "I never was on a ship afore where the boy could do as he liked." Sam shook his head and sighed. "It's the best ship I was ever on, barrin' that," he said sternly. "What'll 'e be like when he grows up?" demanded Dick, as he lost himself in the immensity of the conjecture.
"Well, then, get up, and be a man," said I. "If you give in like that, and fancy yourself dying, and all sorts of things, you deserve to be thrown overboard; though I'm not the person going to do it." "All hands shorten sail!" sung out Adam Stallman, who had charge of the deck. I sprang up the companion-ladder, followed by Dicky, and from that moment he forgot all about his sea-sickness.
Scarcely had he uttered the words when he was thrown out of his bed-place, and True Blue was sent with great violence against the bulkhead of the cabin. "On deck! on deck!" they both shouted; but as they made for the companion-ladder, they were driven back by a tremendous rush of water: the lights were extinguished, and they were left in total darkness.
Darting lightly back to the companion-ladder, I slipped down it and was on the point of escaping forward when I heard slow steps.
He went leisurely down the companion-ladder, and met with a careless glance the concerned faces of the mate and second officer. "Come to the skipper at once," said the mate. "Does he want to see me?" said the doctor, languidly, as he entered the cabin. The skipper was lying doubled up in his bunk, his face twisted with pain. "Doctor," he panted, "give me something quick.
I drew my breath with difficulty, and stood upon the companion-ladder hearkening with straining ears, my hand upon the door.
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