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But I do not like the idea of leaving thirty such students as Howe, Little, and Phillips in the sole charge of Dr. Carboy. He is a good man; but he has not quite tact and energy enough for such a responsibility." "Suppose I take them with me," suggested Mr. Fluxion, with a smile. "That is hardly practicable." "I mean in the Josephine," added the vice-principal.
"Many of the people live in boats, as you perceive," added Mr. Fluxion, as he pointed to a gayly-painted craft, on the deck of which was a group of children. At the little window in the stern sat a woman, sewing, while another was knitting near the cabin door.
"Perhaps you will, but the Hôtel Royal will have crumbled to dust before that happy event occurs." There was any quantity of blunders made at the table, and some of the students had nearly choked themselves to death with laughing at them, and at the blank looks of the waiters when spoken to in a tongue which Mr. Fluxion declared sounded more like Low Dutch than decent French. Mr.
Fluxion, as he came up from his breakfast, and discovered the commander watching the stranger through the glass. "Yes, sir; I can just make her out now. Her foremast and mainmast have gone by the board, and she has the ensign, union down, hoisted at her mizzen," replied the captain, with no little excitement in his manner. "Indeed!" exclaimed the teacher of mathematics, as he took the glass.
All is as unsubstantial, as vague and shadowy, as Coleridge's "image of a rock," or Bishop Berkeley's "ghost of a departed quantity," as he once defined a fluxion.
"Well, we are bound down to the coast of Africa to get a cargo of gorillas. Mr. Fluxion is going into the show business." "You get out!" exclaimed Perth, vexed to find himself "sold." "I don't know but the plan was changed," continued the carpenter. "Some of them were afraid we might get things mixed on board; and after we got the cargo in, we couldn't tell the gorillas from the runaways."
As he went over the side, he saw Adler, Phillips, and others of the runaways, who belonged to the consort, on deck, and he concluded that his plan had worked as well in her as in the ship. "Well, Mr. Fluxion," said he, as he grasped the hand of his able assistant, "I see the Josephine has not yet been taken away from you." "No, sir.
"Don't do it, Terrill," said Paul, as he led the way to the deck, with his bundle in his hand. When they went on deck, Mr. Fluxion had just returned in the first cutter; and great was his astonishment, and that of the boat's crew, when informed of the exciting event which had just transpired.
The runaways, to the astonishment, if not the horror, of the Faithful, warmly applauded this announcement. It was equivalent to saying they did not wish to join the excursion. The principal made no remark, though the applause was certainly impudent; but doubtless he was fully reconciled to the little arrangement he had made with Mr. Fluxion.
Besides, Bitts did not lean against the mast and go to sleep, and Cleats sent a hand down to bring up his luncheon, and the vice-principal staid on deck nearly all night. "I think Fluxion smells a mice," said Perth, the next day. "Why so?" asked Little. "Because he stays on deck more than half the night." "He is anxious about the navigation, perhaps." "It is plain sailing here," added Perth.
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