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"There was talk enough about that thing before they got done with it to 'a' made the old man roll in his grave. They raked up all the stories about his cruisin' on the Spanish main when he was a young man. They wan't stories he'd ever told; he wan't much of a hand to talk about what he'd seen and done on his v'yages.
Anyhow, my wife says that when I die 'twill be of salt water on the brain, and I'm sure Zach's head is part cabbage. Been better for him if he'd stuck to his garden. However, I s'pose he does his best." "They say angels can do no more." "Um-m. Well, Zach'll be an angel pretty soon if he keeps on cruisin' with that old hooker as she is.
After he had been led through the settlement and a considerable way up the mountain in silence, the boatswain suddenly stopped, and said "Hallo! hold on; my timbers won't stand much more o' this sort o' thing. I was built for navigatin' the seas, I was not for cruisin' on the land. We're far enough out of ear-shot, I s'pose, in this here bit of a plantation. Come, what have ye got to say to me?
David Bright only meant that, having observed through his telescope the little transaction between the White Cloud and the Coper, his intention was to pay that vessel a visit to go carousing, or, as the North Sea smacksmen have it, "cruisin'." Gunter obeyed the order with satisfaction and alacrity. "Jump in, Spivin, and you come too, Billy."
"But I am QUITE sure I can do nothing with your shares, Captain Hallett. It it such a thing would be absolutely impossible. I'm sorry." Captain Jethro's calm was unshaken. "We-ll," he said, slowly, "I ain't altogether surprised. Course I could see that maybe you wouldn't want to go cruisin' up to them folks again, 'specially they bein' relations. I don't blame you for that, Mr. Bangs.
"Didn't get down on South Street, did you?" he asked. "No, I thought not. If you had you'd have met plenty. When I was goin' to sea I bet I never went cruisin' down South Street in my life that I didn't run afoul of somebody I wan't expectin' to. Greatest place for meetin' folks in the world, I cal'late South Street is. Lots of seafarin' men have told me so."
I never goes cruisin' without dry matches corked tight in a bottle handy in my pocket, and I never uses un unless my other matches gets wet. There's times when it's the only way to get a fire, and without un to-day I'm not doubtin' some of us would have perished." "I always carries un too," said Toby.
She stranded half-a-mile further down, on a rock, where she lies to this hour, with a wheel smashed and the bottom out, and about three thousand tons o' water swashin' right through her every hour; but all the provisions and the mule went slap down the Sacramento; an', if they haven't bin' picked up on the way, they're cruisin' off the port o' San Francisco by this time."
"Yell, cooriously enough," returned the Arab, "I've got business at the East End. By the vay, you don't 'appen to 'ave any browns any coppers about you eh?" "Of course I has. You don't suppose a man goes cruisin' about Lun'on without any shot in the locker, do you?" "To be sure not," responded the street boy; "I might 'ave know'd that a man like you wouldn't, anyhow.
There was nothing fer it but to set up a whoop an' a yell every once in a while, in hopes that one or other of the boys might be cruisin' 'round near enough to hear me. So I yelled some half a dozen times, stoppin' between each yell to listen.
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