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Updated: June 15, 2025
"At last one day, the doctor wouldn't stand it any longer; so says he, `If you don't let me out of this, I'll make you sing out "Coopity! coopity!" from the other side of your mouth; so look out. The captain laughed at him, and went on as before.
I had not seen McAllister laugh since we had lost the prize. He now gave way to a hearty peal, exclaiming, "Ha! ha! ha! I'll make the French lieutenant sing out `Coopity! coopity! coopity! before the world is many years older." I need not describe all that occurred in the boat.
You may be sure I and others felt for the doctor when the savage used to go to him, with a grin on his face, and sing out, `Coopity! coopity! coopity! The doctor would have been starved if he hadn't taken the food when the captain brought it him, with his `Coopity! coopity! coopity!
Well, would you believe it? the captain kept the poor doctor in there, day after day, and always took his meals to him himself, cut up into little bits so that he could eat them with a spoon. When he put in the plate, he always used to sing out, `Coopity! coopity! coopity! just as he would have done if he was feeding the fowls. It aggravated the poor doctor, but he couldn't help himself.
Then there was a regular trial, and the governor heard what the doctor had to say, and the skipper and we had to say, and then he says, `I decide that you, Captain Crowfoot, shall pay Dr McGrath two hundred golden guineas before you leave this court. The captain, with many wry faces, began to make all sorts of excuses, but the governor wouldn't listen to one of them, and Captain Crowfoot had to get a merchant to hand him out two bags of guineas. `Count them, captain, count them, says the governor; and as the skipper counted them out on the table, the doctor stood by with another bag, and, as he swept them in with his hand, he kept singing out `Coopity! coopity! coopity! Really it was pleasant to hear the doctor go on with his `Coopity! coopity! coopity! Everybody in the court laughed, and, I believe you, the skipper was glad enough to get away when he had counted out all his money, and there was a regular cheer of `Coopity! coopity! coopity! as he rushed out of the court."
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