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The Frenchmen had scarcely retreated from their daring attempt to board the frigate, when the lashings which secured their bowsprit to her began to give way. The boatswain had, however, got a hawser ready ranged along the deck, and this, in spite of the fire kept up at them, he, with his mates and others of the crew, secured to the gammoning of the Frenchmen's bowsprit.
Wills writes on one occasion that they had to wait, and send back for Gray, who was "gammoning" that he could not walk. Nine days afterwards the unfortunate man dies an act which at any rate is not often successfully gammoned.
Then I lay down, and when I awoke this morning the window was open, and he had escaped." "Impossible!" cried Captain Murray angrily. "Humph! I don't know so much about that, Murray," said the doctor, after indulging in a grunt. "The young rascal was gammoning us last night, pretending to be so bad." "But there was no deceit about the wound."
At each turn the gammoning hawser is hove taut, while every effort is used to bring the bowsprit down into its place. A heavy boat is sometimes suspended from the end, the weight of which greatly assists the gammoning process.
At last the attempt to fire the gun was abandoned. The French ship now getting a breeze, began to forge ahead. This enabled the Thisbe's crew to bring their aftermost gun on the starboard side to bear, the first discharge from which cut away the gammoning of the French frigate's bowsprit.
At this unexpected answer, a hoarse murmur arose from the deputation; and the same gentleman who had expressed an opinion relative to the gammoning nature of the introductory speech, again made a monosyllabic demonstration, by growling out 'Resign! Which growl being taken up by his fellows, swelled into a very earnest and general remonstrance.
"So we did, Dave, and a lot more things," cried Dick. "How to know when anyone's gammoning." "Gammoning, lad?" said Dave uneasily. "Yes, gammoning. You don't want the flood done away with." "Not want the flood done away wi'!" "No; and you don't want the fen drained and turned into fields." "Do yow?" said Dave fiercely, and he took a step nearer to the lad. "No, of course not," cried Dick.
He warn't gammoning me, then. My, how thirsty I do feel! It's the perspiration, I suppose. Here, how plaguy dark it is! Course I've seen these 'ere things before, but it never seemed so bad as this. Not fire? Won't I? Why, if I made out one of them things coming on up the bank, it 'ud be enough to make a decent piece go off of itself.
"D'you mean to say you ain't been gammoning me?" demanded the mate, seizing him by the collar. "Come and see for yourself," said Henry. The mate released him, and stood eyeing him with a puzzled expression as a thousand-and-one little eccentricities on the part of the skipper suddenly occurred to him.
He's a-gammoning on us, sir." "Gammoning us?" "Yes, sir. That's his artfulness. He likes to be carried down to his snug warm bed, and carried up again, and set here in the sun, and being fed with figs and sweet biscuits and lumps of sugar. It's my 'pinion that he's as well as you and me." "No, no," said Mark. "I believe the poor thing is very ill."
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