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Updated: June 6, 2025
"The cutter's sailors had come, of course, after the boy, and they stumbled on the way through the rocks, just same as the boy did; and we waited for 'em with a few sticks, and then give 'em as much as were good for 'em, and then retreated, big Joey keeping the way till we had all got up the rock, and then up he come in the dark, and you'd have laughed fit to crack your sides to hear them down below whacking at the stones with their cutlashes till they was obliged to believe we was gone, and then they went back with their tails between their legs like a pack of dogs."
"They're coming along searching for us, I suppose." "I didn't mean that sound; I meant this. There, listen again." Don took a step into the cave, but went no farther, for Jem gripped his arm. "Take care, my lad. 'Tarn't safe. Hear that noise?" "Yes; it is like some animal breathing hard." "And we've got no pistols nor cutlashes. It's a lion, I know." "There are no lions here, Jem." "Arn't there?
The cockswain paused a moment before he proceeded to obey this unexpected order, and, pointing towards the battery, he inquired, with infinite phlegm: "For shore-work, sir? Shall we take the cutlashes and pistols? or shall we want the pikes?"
Bluejackets, use your pikes and cutlashes. `Ay, ay, sir, we shout; and den up de hill we go up! up! De faster we go de better for us, for de French bullets come down peppering pretty sharp.
"They've got eight men of a crew, wi' pistols an' cutlashes." "Well, it's all up with us," cried Ruby, in a tone of sulky anger, as he tossed his oar overboard, and, folding his arms on his breast, sat sternly eyeing the gig as it approached. Suddenly a beam of hope shot into his heart. A few words will explain the cause thereof.
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