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Updated: June 19, 2025
One fine afternoon, not long after the visit to the coper, Bob Lumsden, alias Lumpy, was called from his culinary labours to assist in hauling in the net. Now it is extremely interesting to note what a wonderful effect the power of loving sympathy can have on a human being.
There's the Coper alongside now; go, get another keg. It is cheap, and you can just take a little drop to relieve that desperate craving. Come, now, be a man, and show that you have powers of self-restraint. You have always boasted of the strength of your will, haven't you? Show it now." "Ay, an' prove the strength of my will," replied David, with another grim smile, "by givin' in to your will.
"D'ye think the skipper did it a' purpose, mate?" asked David. "Sartinly not," answered Luke. "The skipper had no ill-will at him, but he was so drunk he couldn't take care of himself, an' didn't know what he was about." "That wasn't the fault o' the Coper," growled Gunter. "You say he got half-screwed afore he went there, an' he might have got dead-drunk without goin' aboard of her at all."
While he was thus engaged one of the men whispered in his ear, "A coper alongside, sir." The skipper shut the "wery best wollum" at once, and ordered out the boat. "Put a cask o' oysters in her," he said. Usually his men were eager to go with their skipper, but on this night some of them were so interested in the books they were reading that they preferred to remain on board.
But up to the time we write of, Manx Bradley had only been able to rejoice in the blessing as sent to others. It had not yet reached his own fleet, the twelve or thirteen hundred men and boys of which were still left in their original condition of semi-savagery, and exposure to the baleful influences of that pest of the North Sea the coper.
"A-are are you the skipper o' this here wessel!" he stammered. "Ay, through God's goodness I am." "A mission wessel!" said Fox, his amazement not a whit abated as he looked round. "Just so, a Gospel ship," answered Fred, giving the skipper another shake of the hand. "You didn't mistake it for a coper, did 'ee?" asked David Duffy, who was one of the visitors.
How could so misused a remnant cope with the manifold cares of the long-harried Arrowhead ranch? Why, he just plain coped, that was all. He might be mere shattered flotsam, but you bet he was still some little coper, take her word for that! Matter of fact, though, he didn't aim to hold the job for long.
And here is the carroty-poled urchin, George Coper, returning from work, and singing 'Home! sweet Home! at the top of his voice; and then, when the notes prove too high for him, continuing the air in a whistle, until he has turned the impassable corner; then taking up again the song and the words, 'Home! sweet Home! and looking as if he felt their full import, ploughboy though he be.
Very considerable trouble and expense have to be incurred by the mission, however, for the tobacco has to be fetched from a foreign port; but the result amply repays the cost for the men naturally prefer paying only 1 shilling per pound on board the mission-ship, to paying 1 shilling 6 pence on board the "coper."
It was not an easy matter to handle one whose frame was so heavy, but with the assistance of the owner of the Coper they managed it. "It's only a slight cut," said Billy, looking anxiously round at Trevor. "Ay, lad, it ain't the cut or the blow as keeps him down, but the grog. Come, we must git him aboard sharp. Haul up the boat Gunter, while I stop the leak in his skull."
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