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"Mr. Glegg," interrupted his wife, severely, "mind what you're saying. You're putting yourself very forrard in other folks's business. If you speak rash, don't say it was my fault." "That's such a thing as I never heared of before," said uncle Pullet, who had been making haste with his lozenge in order to express his amazement, "making away with a note!
He endeavoured, therefore, to slide down the rigging, but was shot through the heart, and dead before he had time to know it. Then an old quartermaster, who was standing on the poop, with his legs spread out as comfortably as if he had his Sunday dinner on the spit before him, shouted "That's him, boys that glazed hat beggar! Have at him all together, next time he comes forrard."
"By God, sir, did you ever see the like! She can't hang on here." "Not, long surely," I admitted. "A bit more sea, and she breaks into kindling wood. If there is any salvage aboard, my man, it will be done in the next twenty minutes." "There is no hope o' gittin' forrard, sir look at that damn litter, an' an' them dead men."
She got riled 'bout that, an' thraitened revenge; an' one night, as I war comin' from Swampville, 'bout this time only 'twar as dark as a pot o' pitch I war jest ridin' out into this very gleed, when all o' a suddint my ole hoss gin a jump forrard, an I feeled somethin' prick me from behind. 'Twar the stab o' some sort o' a knife, that cut me a leetle above the hip, an' made me bleed like a buck.
He crept about like a homeless dog much, I am afraid, to my secret glee, for I couldn't help remembering his untiring cruelty to the green hands on first leaving port. In consequence of these little drawbacks we were not a very jovial crowd forrard or aft.
"Well, this here is a rummy go," exclaimed the gunner, after looking from face to face for the counsel that there was not. "Let's see, my lads; it was just about here as he went forrard, warn't it?" "No," growled Tom Tully; "it were a good two-score fathom more to the east'ard." "Nay, nay, lad; it were a couple o' cables' length doo west," said another.
I paid for twenty men; and you two and two others skipped at the dock. I had to wait all day in the Horseshoe. You two were caught dead drunk last night, and came down with the tug. That's what the runners said, and that's all I know about it. Go forrard." "Do you mean, captain " "Go forrard where you belong. Mr. Knapp, set these men to work."
"i, i, Sir," they said, in a chorus. Then, as we all turned to go forrard, he asked if anyone had relieved the look-out. "No, sir," answered Quoin. "Is it yours?" the Second asked. "Yes, Sir," he replied. "Hurry up and relieve him then," the Second said. "i, i, Sir," the man answered, and went forrard with the rest of us. As we went, I asked Plummer who was at the wheel. "Tom," he said.
He fears you will act as one if you have to choose between his interests and your own honor. And today, since your letter arrived " "Yes, ma'am," they heard Captain Stump shout from the bridge, "Miss Fenshawe is forrard, with Mr. Royson. You'll find it a very pretty sight goin' through the canal on a night like this." And Mrs.
Half an hour had not tired him, and he was leading another assault, when a magnificent lady, such as you see in wax-works, appeared in the vestibule and made some remark to a policeman, who then shouted: "If so there be hany lad here called Shovel, he can step forrard."
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