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Updated: May 9, 2025
It was moonlight you've been in the tropics, McGuffey, you know what real moonlight is an' I was lyin' out on th' edge of Hakatuea overlookin' the beach. I'd spotted a sail at sunset an' somethin' told me it was the Dashin' Wave. Pinky was with me, rubbin' my head an' braidin' my whiskers an' cooin' over me like a baby, as happy as any woman could be.
Alongside there lay six dead bodies the man, his wife, two boys, somewhere near your age, a little girl, of maybe ten, and a baby all butchered by them savages, layin' in the hunter's vernacular in their gore. It was easy to see how they'd killed the baby, by his broken skull. They had seized the poor thing by the feet, and swung him against the side of the house, dashin' out his brains."
Maybe you know the kind the asphalt always littered with paper, garbage cans left out, and swarms of kids playin' tip-cat or dashin' about on roller skates. Cheap and messy. And to judge by the names on the letter boxes you'd say the tenants had been shipped in from every country on the map.
And could see it a shinin' still plainer in another one of the pictures Lady Aukland a goin' over the Hudson in a little canoe with the waves a dashin' up high round her, to get to the sick bed of her companion. The white flag of truce wuz a wavin' over her head and in her heart wuz a shinin' the clear white light of a woman's deathless devotion.
As soon as she done so the helm were put hard up, and the main-yard rounded in, just keepin' the topsail alift, but not permittin' it to shake. As she went off till she got the sea on the quarter, a mighty wave came a-rollin' along, boardin' us about the main riggin', floodin' the decks and dashin' out the starboard bulwarks.
The souls a sailin' and a driftin' through the dark night of despair a dashin' along through fog and mist and darkness aginst rocks. What it would be to one kneelin' in the lonesome night watches by a grave, if the dark sky could grow luminous and he could read, "Do not despair! I am alive! I love you!"
"'Now, says I, when Bull is through readin', 'you have a sample of what publicity does for a man. I'm a hero. But that don't outfit the schooner Dashin' Wave. A man don't get no wages as a hero, Bull. Nevertheless, says I, 'I have invented a story that will bring in money, an' I tell the story to Bull.
"But the minute I come up to the surface and rose breast-high, dashin' the water out o' my eyes so's to look around for the dog, I seen I'd been a leetle mite too previous, as the feller said. I hadn't taken into consideration one pertic'lar chance like the feller't married one o' twins an' then couldn't tell which from t'other.
"I I'll have you thrown out!" "You will, eh?" says I, makin' a rush for him. "O-o-o-oh, Aunty, Aunty!" he squeals, dashin' down the hall. Now, say, the way I was feelin' then, I'd have gone up against a whole fam'ly, big brothers included; so a little thing like a call for Aunty don't stop me at all.
I must have looked guilty or something; for he shoots me a crisp, knowin' glance. "Oh, yes the the roses," I hears him go on. "It was silly of me, wasn't it? I I'll explain some time, if I may." "Oh!" says she. "Of course you may, if they really need explaining." Which was the last we heard, as Vee had found an openin' into the corridor and was dashin' out panicky. You can bet I follows!
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