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But at this point a young woman and pretty, too, though daubed with paint thrust her hat and head out of a window, three carriages away, and demanded to know what in the name of Moses we were waiting for. "Signals, my dear. The flagship's forra'd; and keep your eye lifting that way, if you please.
Well, sir, for two days she'd been carryin' canvas that fairly smothered us, an' Cap'n Crang not a man to care how we fared forra'd, so long as the water didn' reach aft to his own quarters. But at last the First Lootenant, Mr. Wapshott, took pity on us, and the Cap'n bein' below, takin' his nap after dinner sends the crew o' the maintop aloft to take a reef in the tops'le. Poor Eli was one.
As there was no one forthcoming to claim the honor of the lead, Tammas came forward with cunning counsel. "Tell yo' what, lads, we'd best let 'em as don't know nowt at all aboot him go first. And onst they're on, mind, we winna let 'em off; but keep a-shovin' and a-bovin 'on 'em forra'd. Then us'll foller."
Show us the way, youngster down by the creek, did you say? Tallyho, boys! One and all! Yoicks forra'd! Go-one away!" and, dragging Nandy with them, the pack pelted out of the garden. Now you understand how it was that Dr. Clatworthy and Miss St. Maur, entering the garden ten minutes later, saw but a bevy of disconsolate maidens strolling the paths, and no uniform nor sign of one.
He picked up and uncoiled a spare rope. "You'd best take hold o' this and let me slip ye over the starboard side, forra'd there, as she goes about. Bain't afeard, hey?" "I'm not afraid of anything but being caught, sir." "Sarah will take her in close: there's plenty water." "O.P.," said the voice aft. "My angel." "Tell 'en he's a good boy, and I wouldn' mind having one like him."
"Which you'll hardly believe it, but though I knowed him for a West Country man, 'twas not till the last I larned what parish he hailed from. It happened very curiously. Bill, rout up A. Grigg and Son, an' fetch him forra'd here to listen. You'll find the tools underneath him in the stern-sheets." Bill obeyed, and possessing himself of hammer and chisel lounged off to the shore.
'Hullo! says you; 'that's a pretty-lookin' craft o' your'n. 'She'll work in' an' out o' most places, says I. 'Speedy too, I reckon, says you, 'for a hard-wood ship; though a bit fine forra'd. A wet boat, I doubt? 'Not a bit, says I; 'that's a mistake strangers are apt to make about the Hannah Hoo. Like to step aboard an' cast a look over her fittin's?
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