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Fluxion planked the quarter-deck as industriously as though he were walking on a wager, or had the dyspepsia, which could only be cured by plenty of exercise. "What do you suppose this means?" said Perth, when the port watch had gone below. "I don't know: it's a poser to me," replied Herman, as he seated himself under the shelter of the top-gallant forecastle.
Fluxion himself had a faculty for keeping a hotel, and understood precisely what tired travellers wanted when they came in late in the evening; and he had ordered, in addition to the thé complet, the bif-stek and pomme de terre. The boys were as hungry as wolves, and the solid part of the entertainment was very inviting. Each dish of beefsteak was covered over with nicely browned fried potatoes.
The channel in front of Dort was formed by an inundation which separated the town from the main land, leaving it deep enough to float the largest Indiaman." "The Leck, on which we sailed for a time after leaving Rotterdam, was a canal dug by the Romans to connect the Rhine and the Waal," added Mr. Fluxion.
You will think, perhaps, from this idle attempt, that I have some fluxion on my sight; no such matter; I have suffered myself to be persuaded by such sort of arguments as those by which people are induced to strict abstinence, or to take physic.
Howe had ruined himself as a leader by his silly conduct, and there was not likely to be any further concerted action among them. Mr. Lowington had faithfully followed out his plan, and had directed Mr. Fluxion to adopt the same treatment for those who refused to do duty in the Josephine to keep them in the steerage, and feed them on sailors' fare.
I had enough of that sort of thing in the ship. If we don't behave well, the first thing Fluxion will do will be to put us on salt horse and hard bread." "We won't do anything yet. In my opinion, we shall go into port in a day or two." At eight bells the starboard watch were piped to dinner, being relieved by the port watch.
If Fluxion chooses to go round the world with us, we can't do anything but submit." "I'm not so sure of that. When we find out where he is going, we can figure up what it is best to do. We are not babies, and thirty-one of us can do something. But we will keep still till we ascertain where we are going." "Look ahead!" said Herman, pointing a little over the port bow. "Isn't that land?"
Fluxion understood his crew, and knew what he was about. With a ship's company who had been desperate enough to capture the vessel on a former occasion, he was wise enough to keep everything taut. So the runaways could only grumble and growl, and watch the steamers which were constantly arriving and departing. Before sundown Mr. Fluxion returned alone.
The boats were pulling for the shore, and those below were laboring to release themselves from their imprisonment. He went to the companion way, and tried to open it; but the nail held it fast. Descending to the steerage, he removed the handspike with which the cabin door was fastened. "What does all this mean?" demanded Mr. Fluxion, as he hastened on deck.
I went home, glad that my life lay in other paths. PARIS, March, 1865. DEAR M., Do not be anxious about me. When Mrs. M wrote, I was really in danger of a fluxion de poitrine. I am sorry she worried you unnecessarily. I am much better; in fact, I am far on the road to recovery. If every one had such a nice time when they are ill as I had they would not be in a hurry to get well.
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