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"Hoo's noan so owd as that cooms to," retorted Ted indignantly. "Her an' me's mich of an age I am goin' to wed her. Now then! I've coorted her, an' we'n been shouted, an' I'm goin' to let it go forrud. Theer! I hope nobry hasn't got no objections."
"There, you stow yourselves well forrud," he enjoined, as soon as we had descended, chucking down a spare tarpaulin and some pieces of canvas after us to make ourselves comfortable with. "Lie quiet, mind," he added as a parting injunction, "the rest of the hands and the skipper will be soon aboard, and it'll be all up if they finds you out afore we start."
"You can go forrud now and thank your stars I don't report you, as I had more than half a mind to at first. If I did, you'd be put into the black list and lose your stripes to a dead certainty."
"’Tain’t in natur," said she, "that she should stay long. Allus was peart like and forrud, and now has been ridin’ in the railroad all over the airth, and hain’t got lost nuther, besides a-sailin’ along in the steam engine over the salt water."
"You'll go aft at once, Mr Matthews," he said, waving him away with his outstretched arm. "Another such dereliction from duty and you shall come forrud altogether, as you appear to like the fo'c's'le so well. I have made you third officer; but bear in mind that if I possess the power to make, I can break too!"
The watch at once ran to their respective stations, Tom Jerrold and I with a couple of others attending to the cross-jack yard. "All ready forrud?" "Aye, aye, sorr," shouted back Tim Rooney from the forecastle, "all ready forrud." "Helms a-lee!" The head sheets were let go as the captain roared out this order, the jib flattening as the vessel went into stays.
"Have you any idea where it is coming in?" inquired Mr Meldrum. "Well, sir, the cap'en say it's by the rudder-post; but I myself thinks it's amidships or else forrud: I'd have looked, but I couldn't shift the cargo without help." "This must be seen to at once, Captain Dinks," said Mr Meldrum.
"You, turned fifteen year old, and been back'ard and forrud 'twixt Hardway and the Gosport shore for a matter of five years or more, and not for to know and read a common signal like that, which you must 'a seed run up at the semaphore or on board the Dook a hundred times at least. Lor'! I'm jest 'shamed of you, that's what I be!"
"Didn't I tell ye if ye'd any complaints to make, to come aft singly and I'd attend to 'em, but that if ye ever came to me in a body I'd not listen to ye?" "Aye, aye," said Gregory, "but " "Avast there!" shouted the captain interrupting him. "When I say a thing I mean a thing; and so ye'd better go forrud again as quick as ye can, or I'll come down and make ye!"
Like ours, the ship was decorated throughout regardless of expense, everyone subscribing to the fund, and a screen similar to what we had was being put up when the admiral coming down from the poop chanced to notice this. "`Hullo! he cried. `What's that for? "`Why, sir, explained the commander, `it's to keep the men forrud from staring at the dancers.
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