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Frank looked toward the pilot-house, where the lieutenant had taken refuge, and waited to hear his answer. To his surprise and horror, he saw a hand extended waving a white handkerchief, and the coxswain exclaimed: "Mr. Nelson, he's surrendering us, sir!"
He now felt safe; and seeing the coxswain gradually retreating before the furious attacks of the guerrilla chief, he sprang forward, and with one blow sent the sword flying from his hand and bore him to the floor.
Jim Allen, one of our tallest sailors, and coxswain of the gig, dressed in blue, with long oakum wig and beard, gilt paper crown, and trident and fish impaled in one hand, was seated on a gun-carriage, and made a capital Father Neptune. Our somewhat portly engineer, Mr.
Go a little nearer, but not too near." "Tell me, then. Remember, I can't see." "Yes. One, two, three " She counted. Each time she said a number he pulled. And she, like a little coxswain, bent towards him with each word, giving him a bodily signal for the stroke. Presently she stretched out her hand. "Stop!" He stopped at once. For a minute the boat glided on.
My mother cried a great deal during the night; the next morning she gave me five guineas as pocket-money, recommending me to be careful of it, and telling me I must look to Captain Delmar for my future supply. She tied up the little linen I had brought with me in a handkerchief, and shortly after the coxswain knocked at the door, and came upstairs to claim me for his Majesty's service.
"I must see what this means." "Flatten in, fore and aft, and stand by to let run your halyards!" ordered the coxswain, easing his helm down; and as he spoke I stepped upon the stern thwart with the object of getting a somewhat more extended view over the sandbank. But there was nothing to be seen stay! why was the spray from the surf flying so much higher in one particular spot than elsewhere?
"Captain Ringgold told me to take the party up the river, to show them the boats and houses," replied the coxswain. "That is a good idea, Mr. Scott," added the professor. "The houses here are all afloat," said Morris. "They are three or four deep." "Everybody is not allowed to build his house on shore; for that is a royal privilege, doled out to a few of the highest nobility," said the professor.
The crowd was now dense, and the excitement still increasing, but the moment they saw our coxswain, in obedience to an order given by Mr Brooke in spite of an appealing look, and a request for another ten minutes begin to haul up the rough grapnel, the noise ashore was hushed, and the gesticulations ceased. "Five minutes more, Mr Brooke," I whispered; "I feel sure that Ching will come."
"Come, my little fellow, we'll soon make a man of you." I once more pressed my lips to my poor mother's, and she resigned me to the coxswain, at the same time taking some silver off the table and putting it into his hand. "Thanky, marm; that's kinder still, to think of another when you're in distress yourself; I shan't forget it.
This was the more hard, he said, as he was assured the mischief was done on purpose, these scoundrels having lurked about after they had landed every drop of brandy, and every bag of tea they had on board; and he understood the coxswain had been on shore, making particular inquiries concerning the time when his boat was to cross over, and to return, and so forth.
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