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They were by far the most advanced thinkers and actors of their own age, and they rose almost at once to be the dominant creatures of the primæval ocean in which they swam. There were as yet no saurians or whales to dispute the dominion with these rapacious cephalopods, and so the cuttle family had things for the time all their own way.
Sleeping and waking, ain't I been upon my post, and wouldn't I scorn to quit it while this here Midshipman held together! 'Yes, Captain Cuttle, replied Walter, grasping his hand, 'I know you would, and I know how faithful and earnest all you say and feel is. I am sure of it.
Here I met with many sea commanders, and among others Captain Cuttle, and Curtis, and Mootham, and I, went to the Fleece Tavern to drink; and there we spent till four o'clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the manner of the life of slaves there! And truly Captn. Mootham and Mr. At their redemption they pay so much for the water they drink at the public fountaynes, during their being slaves.
Ah! said Captain Cuttle, vauntingly, 'as much as if he'd gone and knocked his head again a door! 'Let us take this gentleman to see him, and let us hear what he says, cried Florence. 'Will you go with us now? We have a coach here. Again the Captain clapped his hand to his head, on which the hard glazed hat was not, and looked discomfited.
Alighting here, Florence and Susan Nipper walked down the street, and sought out the abode of Captain Cuttle. It happened by evil chance to be one of Mrs MacStinger's great cleaning days. On these occasions, Mrs MacStinger was knocked up by the policeman at a quarter before three in the morning, and rarely such before twelve o'clock next night.
He was overjoyed to have it all arranged and settled next day before noon; and to sit down at evening in the little back parlour with old Sol and Captain Cuttle; and to see the Instrument-maker already reviving, and hopeful for the future, and feeling that the wooden Midshipman was his own again.
At what date the gigantic cuttles of the present day first began to make their appearance it would be hard to say, for their shell-less bodies are so soft that they could leave hardly anything behind in a fossil state; but the largest known cuttle, measured by Mr. Gabriel, of Newfoundland, was eighty feet in length, including the long arms.
I should not care much for the counsel of the man whose life had been one long sunshiny holiday. There is greater depth in the philosophy of Mr. Dickens than a great portion of his readers discern. You are ready to smile at the singular way in which Captain Cuttle commended his friend Jack Bunsby as a man of extraordinary wisdom, whose advice on any point was of inestimable value.
But when Walter told him what was really the matter, Captain Cuttle, after a moment's reflection, started up into full activity.
'Should you? Then I'm sorry that you won't be satisfied, returned Miss Nipper. 'Hush, Susan! If you please! said Florence. 'Perhaps you can have the goodness to tell us where Captain Cuttle lives, Ma'am as he don't live here. 'Who says he don't live here? retorted the implacable MacStinger.
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