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"`Oh, there's no use in the world giving ourselves the trouble of boarding her, muttered Mr Futlock; and he was just going to order the cutter to be kept on a wind, when we saw the stranger haul up his foresail, and let fly his jib sheets, evidently intending to wait our coming. "`What cutter is that? shouted old Futlock.
"Mr Futlock took the glass, and with his lack-lustre eye had a long look at the cutter, which was bobbing away into the seas, while she kept her course on a wind as if in no manner of a hurry. "`She is honest, I believe, he observed, with a wise nod. `Probably a Poole or Exmouth trader; but we must overhaul her notwithstanding. Shake a reef out of the mainsail, my lads.
Hearing that we were on the look-out for his craft, the Seagull, he shifted his cargo into her. "`Then we were cleverly done! exclaimed our commander, stamping his foot with vexation. `The very fellow old Futlock thought looked so honest that he would not take the trouble to board him. It is the very last time in my life that I will trust to outside appearances.
We first shortened sail; the helm was put down, and the cutter hove-to, and then, after several attempts by waiting for a lull, we got the boat with a crew safe in water. "Mr Futlock jumped into the boat, and pulled towards the tubs which were first seen, we meantime keeping a bright look-out for any more which might be floating near.
"Not being accustomed to this sort of work, I felt not a little alarmed for the safety of my shipmates, as I saw the boat tumbling about among the white-crested waves. "Mr Futlock soon got hold of ten tubs, lashed together, and hauled them into the boat. A little further on he made a prize of ten more. This was no bad beginning.
"Our old mate, Mr Futlock, had the morning watch. It was never his brightest time, for though he did not actually get tipsy, the reaction following the four or five pretty stiff glasses of grog which he drank at night, generally at this time took place. I was in his watch. "`Youngster, said he to me, `hand me the glass, and let us see if we can make out what that fellow is.
"`Thank you, thank you, shouted Mr Futlock in return, as we ran by and were soon out of speaking distance. `I knew that fellow was honest, he observed to me, rubbing his hands at the thought of making some prize-money. `Come, rouse aft the main-sheet. We must haul up a little again. Can any one see the tubs?
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