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But one day, as they lay becalmed south of the line, a jolly foretopman came on the quarter-deck with a fid of soup, and saluting and scraping, first to the deck, then to the captain, asked him if he would taste that. "Yes, my man. Smoked!" "Like and blazes, your honour, axing your pardon, and the deck's." "Young gentleman," said Dodd to Mr.
I'd die a foretopman sooner;" and, with these parting words, he renewed all his sister's anxiety. She sat down sorrowfully, and the horrible idea gained on her that there was mania in David's love for Lucy. DAVID had one advantage over others that were now hunting Lucy. Mrs.
Mind that, or you'll find I can be as severe as any master afloat. Purser." "Sir." "Double the men's grog: they have been cheated of their meal." "Ay, ay, sir." "And stop the cook's and his mate's for a week." " Ay, ay, sir." "Bosen, pipe down." "Shipmates, listen to me," said the foretopman. "This old Agra is a d d com for table ship." The oracular sentence was hailed with a ringing cheer.
Tom Edwards, a young foretopman, had the lee lookout, and as seven bells struck he sang out, 'Lee cat-head; but the last syllable died away on his lips as his eyes rested upon an object a white object standing bolt upright in the water before him, about a hundred yards distant and broad off on the lee bow.
He remembered his whole life up to his demanding his cash back of Richard Hardie; and there his reawakened mind stopped dead short. Being asked if he knew William Thompson, he said, "Yes, perfectly. He was a foretopman on board the Agra, and rather a smart hand. The ship was aground and breaking up: he went out to sea on a piano: but we cut the hawser as he drifted under, and he got safe ashore."
So quick and neat and silent was he in all he did, that my father was as taken with him as I was. "You'd have made a right good foretopman if your heart is as stout as your fingers are quick," said he. "Did you never wish to have the honour of serving your country?" "It is my honour, sir, to serve Sir Charles Tregellis, and I desire no other master," he answered.
Meredith, a midshipman, "be so good as to send the cook aft." The cook came, and received, not an oath nor a threat but a remonstrance, and a grim warning. In the teeth of this he burnt the soup horribly the very next day. The crew sent the lucky foretopman aft again. He made his scrape and presented his fid. The captain tasted the soup, and sent Mr.
Under ordinary circumstances and in most waters, the man could easily have been saved, but not so in this instance. He did not even rise to the surface. A struggle for portions of his body between half a dozen ravenous sharks was observed alongside the corvette, and all was quickly over. The foretopman had been torn limb from limb and instantly devoured.
To be short, in less than a week Israel found himself at Portsmouth, and, ere long, a foretopman in his Majesty's ship of the line, "Unprincipled," scudding before the wind down channel, in company with the "Undaunted," and the "Unconquerable;" all three haughty Dons bound to the East Indian waters as reinforcements to the fleet of Sir Edward Hughs.
Lying at anchor between our ship and the shore was a trig Spanish corvette, an American-built vessel, by the way, though belonging to the navy of Spain. It was curious at times to watch her crew being drilled in various martial manoeuvres. While an officer was exercising the men at furling topsails, a few days before our arrival, a foretopman fell from aloft into the sea.
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