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"He's too independent," replied the first mate. "He can't do nothing; he couldn't even climb the fo'mast or walk the deck in a breeze. Such green uns has no business bein' independent aboard ship. If I was captain I'd a had him triced up to the mast and the paddle a going afore now." "The lad never saw a ship till yesterday.
If I'D been runnin' that kind of a place, the only time I'd felt shy and retirin' was when the landlord came for the rent. "One of the fo'mast hands hired girls, I mean went aloft to fetch Mrs. Holden, and when Grace came down she was just as nice and folksy and glad to see us as a body could be. But she looked sort of troubled, just the same.
Of course you couldn't have called when he was alive, but he's gone, and I'm well, I'm sort of temporary skipper there now. And I want you to come." "But if Miss Warren did know? She should know, I think." "I ain't sure that she should. I guess there's consider'ble in her pa's life she ain't acquainted with. And she's as straight and honest and upright as a schooner's fo'mast.
I've always liked the Captain, but he has seemed so full of fun and so easy-going that I never thought of his doing anything quite so strenuous." Captain Davis laughed. "I've seen fo'mast hands try to take advantage of that easy-goin' way 'fore now," he said, "but they never did it but once.
Dott," explained the Honorable, with a smile and a Teutonic accent. "I said you would wish we was ouid instead of in; but Olga would not have it so. And, when the women say yes, we don't say no. Eh; what is the use?" He chuckled. Captain Dan grinned. "That's right," he said. "No use for the fo'mast hand to contradict the skipper." Mrs. Black stepped forward. "How do you do, Mrs.
"WILL you shut up?" demanded Captain Sol. "Go on, Barzilla." "Me bein' old enough to be her dad," with a glare at Captain Bailey, "and not bein' too proud to talk with hired help. I never did have that high-toned notion. 'Twa'n't so long since I was a fo'mast hand. "So Effie told me a lot about herself.
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