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"Well, no," Jack replied, deferentially but positively; "nothing like what you 'd hear in a fo'c'sl." In fact, according to Jack's account, he used to be reputed a middling singer himself. And he straightway rendered a mawkishly sentimental song, and a couple of extremely unchaste ones, in a voice which made the tea-embrowned pannikins on the table rattle in sympathy.
Dere's some sense in dat," muttered the negro as he quietly continued to pack the valise. Two hours later and Laronde was dashing across country as fast as four good horses could take him, with George Foster on one side, Peter the Great on the other, and Brown on the box-seat the fo'c'sl, he called it beside the red-coated driver.
To use his own words, he felt as much at home on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, as on the fo'c'sl of a man-of-war, so that the scout's doubt of his capacity as a rider was not well founded.
At last the fo'c'sl was reached, and there our surgeon found his patient, Dick Darvall, awaiting him. The stout seaman's leg had been severely bruised by a block which had fallen from aloft and struck it during one of the recent gales. "A good deal better to-day," said Charlie. "Does it pain you much?" "Not nearly as much as it did yesterday, sir.
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