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Updated: May 18, 2025
Never was a nurse more devoted than Joe Hawkridge when his comrade was mercifully restored to him. Jack was woefully pale and weak but in blithe spirits and thankful to have seen the last of Blackbeard. "Hulled in the leg and a damaged figger-head," said Joe, as he sat on the edge of the hero's bunk.
He had such a fund of sympathetic imagination that he possessed the fair possessions of others like a child with fairy tales. "Is he president of all of them?" asked little Willy Eddy, with gusto, and looked as if he himself held them all in his meagre potato-stained hands. "No," replied the barber, with importance "no, he's more than a president. A president is nothin' except a figger-head.
"Dead?" said she, clutching at the old sailor's hand. "No! no! he a'n't slipt his moorins' yet, but he is badly stove about the figger-head; he's got a ball through his head somewhere, an' another in his leg; and he a'n't within hail; don't hear no speakin'-trumpets; fact is, Sally, he's in for the dockyard a good spell, ef he a'n't broke up hull and all." "Who shot him?" whispered Sally.
Come, sirs, says I, 'who'll give me a black eye; a fiver's all I ask. Well, up comes a young buck, ready an' willin'. 'Tom, says 'e, 'I'll take two flaps at that figger-head o' yourn for seven guineas, come, what d'ye say? I says, 'done, says I. So my fine gentleman lays by 'is 'at an' cane, strips off 'is right-'and glove, an' 'eavin' back lets fly at me.
You have to haul 'em in, and take down the flyin' pennen of Hope and Asperation, and mount up the lamp of Duty and Meekness for a figger-head, instead of the glowin' face of Proud Endeavor. But them lamps give a dretful meller, soft light, when they are well mounted up, and firm sot. The light on 'em hain't to be compared to any other light on sea or on shore.
It is all surrounded with water, and has all the appearance of bein' moored to the wharf. It has all the fittin's that belong to the actual ship, and all the appliances for workin' it. Officers, seamen, marines, mechanics, are sent there by the navy department, and the discipline and way of life on a naval vessel is fully shown. I wuz glad to see that it had a woman for a figger-head.
"What do you mean by such work as this?" demanded George, looking first at the prostrate man and then toward the door, where stood Jake and Bob with their hands clenched and their faces flushed with anger. "Jest take a good squint at that feller's figger-head an' answer the question for yourself, Mr.
Is the end of the world comin' here?" "Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin. Them Britishers is sot out for to hev us under hatches, or else walk the plank; and they're darned mistook, ef they think men is a-goin' to be steered blind, and can't blow up the cap'en no rate.
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