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Updated: June 19, 2025
We say that they floated peacefully, but we speak only as to appearance, for there were other hells in the fleet, similar to that which we have described, and the soft sound of distant oars could be distinguished now and then as boats plied to and fro between their smacks and the Coper, fetching the deadly liquid with which these hells were set on fire.
"Well, no, Peter; I think it would be as well to drop the coper altogether. The abominable stuff the Dutchmen sell us is enough to poison a shark. You know I'm not a teetotaller, but if I'm to be killed at all, I'd rather be killed by good spirits than bad." "Right you are," replied Jay, "but, you see, a lot of us are hard up for baccy, and "
I'll not taste a drop myself not a single drop o' their vile stuff." The Dutch skipper of the coper had a round fat face and person, and a jovial, hearty manner. He received the visitors with an air of open-handed hospitality which seemed to indicate that nothing was further from his thoughts than gain.
But Doctor Dismukes, all snap and smartness, went over him as though he had never seen him before in all his life. If Jeff had been a horse for sale and the doctor a professional horse coper, scarcely could the examination have been carried forward with a more businesslike dispatch.
Now God He knows how many more there be upon the Road who have orders to test me perhaps with the knife. So it stands that the boy must go to Umballa and by rail for the writing is something urgent. I abide here, following the Flower and drinking wine as an Afghan coper should. He halted at the stall next but one to his own. His men lay there heavy with sleep.
The influence of the depraved appetite immediately weighs them down, and they relapse into willing submission to the bondage. Lockley had not returned an answer to his own question when the mate reported that the boat was ready. Without a word he jumped into her, but kept thinking to himself, "We'll only get baccy, an' I'll leave the coper before the lads can do themselves any harm.
Plunging his long right arm down, and holding on to the boat with his left, he caught the drowning man by the hair. Strong and willing arms helped, and Stubley was hauled inboard restored to life, opportunity, and hope and flung into the bottom of the boat. The oars were shipped, and they pulled for the Lively Poll. As they rode away they saw that other boats were proceeding towards the coper.
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