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Now it flashed upon him that the time had come to quote this anathema maranatha, without hesitation he delivered the whole of it, and square, straight into the face of the petrified deck-hand. Petrified immediately he was not.
"There is no end of 'paddies' along this river, and I'm sure they cannot understand your lingo." "Is it paddies in this haythen oisland?" demanded Felix, suspending the operation of dressing himself, and staring at his fellow deck-hand. "I don't belayve a wurrud of ut!" "Are there no paddies up this river, Achang?" said Louis, appealing to the Bornean.
That bombardment off Morro," he explained, tactfully, "was too exciting. We always let him sleep going across, and when we get there he's fresh as a daisy. What's this he tells me of your doing stoking?" "I thought there might be another fight tomorrow, so I said I'd come as a stoker." The captain grinned. "Our Sam, that deck-hand, was telling me. He said Mr.
"Who that uses this part of the deck would be apt to insult his palate with such a cigarette? No one of us hardly any one of the officers or stewards." "Some deck-hand might have sneaked aft for a look-see, expecting to find the quarterdeck deserted at this hour." "Even ordinary seamen avoid, when they can, what the Régie sells under the name of tobacco.
"Why, me and Willy, the deck-hand, we'll take the long boat an' go out an' explore this region roundabout. Somebody may have gasoline somewhere, and if so, we can git it, can't we?" "Your idea is excellent, Jean Lafitte," said I. "Within the hour you shall set forth to see whether or not there is any settlement on this bayou.
Calling the entire ship's company from the state-rooms and cabins to join them, they used every artifice in their power to induce me to show my head above the deck of my boat. One shouted, "Here, you deck-hand, don't cut that man's rope; it's mean to steal a fellow's painter!" Another cried, "Don't put that heavy plank against that little skiff!"
"I don't know what position there is on board for you, unless you take a deck-hand's place." "A deck-hand!" "That is what you have always been." "Do you think I'm going to be bossed by you?" "Ben, if you will tell me just what you want, I shall understand you better," said Lawry, rather impatiently. "You know what I want. There is only one place in the boat I would be willing to take."
He told me that after I had left the boat they got lights and went down into the hold, looking for me, as they were sure I was still on the boat. It was a pretty close call, but they were looking for a well-dressed man, and not a black deck-hand. I was going from Baton Rouge to New Orleans on the steamer Grand Duke, one New Year's eve, and had spent a great deal of money at the bar for wine.
There was grime and oil on that face, and the neck which supported the unkempt head rose out of a rough jersey, but Copplestone recognized his man smartly enough. In spite of the attempt to look like a tug deck-hand there was no mistaking the skipper of the Pike. "Good heavens!" he muttered, as he stared across the crowded quay. "Andrius!" "Right you are, guv'nor," whispered Spurge.
After staring there dully for pretty nearly an hour, it began to dawn upon me that I had seen this man before somewhere, though under what circumstances I could not for the life of me remember. That his outward person was that of the ordinary deck-hand ashore went for nothing. Besides, he had spoken overnight of "my boat."
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