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This forecastle-man was ever afterwards known by a significant title in the main equivalent to that name of reproach fastened upon that Athenian who, in Alexander's time, previous to which all the Greeks sported beards, first submitted to the deprivation of his own.
"That lantern went into a boat, Captain Ludlow, though a lubber carried it!" said the positive old forecastle-man, shaking his head and beginning to pace across the deck, with the air of a man who needed no further confirmation of his suspicions. Ludlow returned towards the quarter-deck, thoughtful but calm.
But habituation to discipline is magical; and ere long an old forecastle-man was discovered elevated upon a match-tub, while, with a malicious grin, his barber a fellow who, from his merciless rasping, was called Blue-Skin seized him by his long beard, and at one fell stroke cut it off and tossed it out of the port-hole behind him.
But, spite of all the contempt hurled on our forecastle-man, so prudent an example was soon followed; presently all the barbers were busy. Sad sight! at which any one but a barber or a Tartar would have wept!
Ay, and Byron helped put a piece of a keel on the fire; for it was made of bits of a wreck, they say; one wreck burning another! And was not Byron a sailor? an amateur forecastle-man, White-Jacket, so he was; else how bid the ocean heave and fall in that grand, majestic way? I say, White-Jacket, d'ye mind me? there never was a very great man yet who spent all his life inland.
"Know ye not, man-of-war's-men! that by the Parthian magi the ocean was held sacred? Did not Tiridates, the Eastern monarch, take an immense land circuit to avoid desecrating the Mediterranean, in order to reach his imperial master, Nero, and do homage for his crown?" "What lingo is that?" cried the Captain of the Waist. "Who's Commodore Tiddery-eye?" cried the forecastle-man.
"And I'll turn my best uniform jacket wrong side out, to keep company with the pennant, old Ensign," sympathetically responded an after-guard's-man. "Ay, do!" cried a forecastle-man. "I could almost pipe my eye to think on't." "No grog on de day dat tried men's souls!" blubbered Sunshine, the galley-cook. "Who would be a Jankee now?" roared a Hollander of the fore-top, more Dutch than sour-crout.
The news of his brother's death, which arrived during the feast, was considerately withheld from him, and he was greatly honoured there; but he roused the jarl's anger by slaying Sweyn Breast-rope, the jarl's forecastle-man, at Orphir, not indeed so much for the murder, as because Sweyn had fled and did not come to submit himself after it to the jarl, and so offended him.
"Here, you Neb come out of that galley and play forecastle-man, while John Bull gets his supper. He's always cross when he's hungry, and we'll feed him well to make a good neighbourhood." This caused some who heard it to laugh, and others to swear and mutter. Every one, nevertheless, appeared willing to profit by the arrangement, the Englishmen being soon below, hard at work around the kids.
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