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There's Mr Malcolm," continued the first-lieutenant, pointing to a youngster who was walking on the other side of the deck, with his hands in his pockets, "it was but yesterday that he chopped off at least four inches from the tail of your dog `Ponto, at the beef-block, and pretends it was an accident." "What! my setter's tail?" "Yes, sir, he did, I can assure you."
Well, one day, when off the coast of America, she quarrelled with the man who was first-lieutenant, and meeting him on shore, she put a pistol into his hand, and told him he must fight her. He was a spirited fellow, and said that he never refused that sort of invitation, and as it was in the chief street of a large city, they had plenty of seconds.
"I've tried all I can to make him so, sir," replied the first-lieutenant; "but I wish to ask Mr Templemore what he means to imply by saying, `when he deserves it. Does he mean to say that I have ever punished him unjustly?" "Yes, sir," replied the boy, boldly; "five times out of six, I am mast-headed for nothing and that's the reason why I do not mind it." "For nothing, sir!
"My dear Sawbridge," replied Captain Wilson, after taking one or two turns up and down the room, "we entered the service together, we were messmates for many years, and you must be aware that it is not only long friendship but an intimate knowledge of your unrewarded merit, which has induced me to request you to come with me as my first-lieutenant.
"Topmen, aloft! loose top-gallant sails and royals clear away the flying-jib," were orders that were hardly out of the mouth of the first-lieutenant, breathless with his rapid descent from aloft, when the gaskets were off; and the sails hung fluttering from the yards.
"By this I concluded he wanted me to become his prime minister a sort of first-lieutenant kings have to do all the work for them. "`I'll think the matter over, your majesty, I answered, `and if I can manage it, I'll stay.
To a frigate drawing three-and-twenty feet of water, the attempt seemed only a precursor to destruction. We hove-to; the captains of the other vessels were signalled on board, and with them and our first-lieutenant and master, a sort of council of war was held; and, as everyone present gave his voice against the attempts our skipper's mind was made up directly.
"By the god of war!" exclaimed the first-lieutenant, "but I'll soon show you down to the boat, my young bantam; and when once I get you safe on board, I'll make you know the difference between a midshipman and a first-lieutenant." "I can only admit of equality, sir," replied Jack; "we are all born equal I trust you'll allow that." "Equality damn it, I suppose you'll take the command of the ship.
"The Skimmer of the Seas!" repeated the young officers, who had crowded round the veteran tar, to hear this characteristic description of the notorious free-trader. "Skimmer or flyer, we have him now, dead under our lee, with a sandy beach on three of his sides, and the wind in his eye!" cried the first-lieutenant.
The clerk, a spare, middle-sized personage, remarkably spruce and neat in his attire, and apparently about forty years of age, made his appearance, with the open list under his arm, and, with a humble bow to the first-lieutenant, laid it upon the cap-stern-head, and running over several pages, from the top to the bottom, with his finger, at last discovered our hero's name.
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