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I won't call you a white man; that would be gammoning you, because man you aren't yet. But you're a plucked un, and they was all delighted to see you hit their mate. Well, you go on like that, and they'll be afraid of you.
On the afternoon of the 16th, the sea being very high and irregular, and the ship pitching with considerable violence, the bowsprit was carried away close to the gammoning, and the foremast and main-topmast immediately followed it over the side.
"For, and apprehend me, Diana, we all, each one of us, possess a devil large or small, and my own is uncomfortably big and strong occasionally, and very difficult to overcome. But this is what devils are for " "You're flamming me!" she cried angrily and snatched her hand away. "A very unpleasing word! Pray what does it signify?" "You're gammoning " "That is rather worse "
My father was indeed the smartest and best seaman in the ship; he could do his work from stem to stern, mouse a stay, pudding an anchor, and pass a gammoning, as well as he could work a Turk's head, cover a manrope, or point a lashing for the cabin table. Besides which, he had seen service, having fought under Rodney, and served at the siege of Gibraltar.
My word! they played just into his hand, and he did the new-chum swell all to pieces, and so that natural no one could have picked him out from them. He dressed like them, talked like them, and never let slip a word except about shooting in England, hunting in America and India, besides gammoning to be as green about all Australian ways as if he'd never seen a gum tree before.
"Yes, yes, I know," cried Carey, indignantly; "and cry `wolf! wolf! But do you think " "He's been gammoning on us, sir," said Bostock to the doctor. "I haven't! I wouldn't play such a trick," cried Carey, indignantly. "There was a great crocodile that looked five-and-twenty or thirty feet long lying close to the water when I signed to you both to come. It wasn't twenty feet away."
"Yes, sir; and the Major, when we came back, said he'd been gammoning him, and that he must have been in the business." "No, no," said Archie thoughtfully; "I'm sure the Major's wrong. Well, go on. Which way has Captain Down gone?" "He has gone along the road to the Rajah's palace, to take him prisoner and make him give an account of himself." "Right away in the jungle, along that elephant-track?
"Not gammoning me, are you, sir?" "No, no, Samson." "You didn't dream all this?" "No, I tell you. We found it by accident, and when we were looking for the end we found that hole where that fallen tree had broken a way into the passage. We piled up all those branches to hide the place." "Well, you stun me, Master Fred. And you think our Nat heard 'em there, and has gone to jine 'em?"
"Peregrine," said he, shaking grave head at me, "your aunt Julia is right a wonderful woman! Poetry is your line, after all books romances, lad imagination " "You think I am romancing, sir?" "Aye, though I call it 'gammoning." "Sir, you affront me!" "No offence, Perry," said he kindly. "You just can't help it comes natural to you like a gamecock fights. What other marvels have you seen?"
As she did so, our next aftermost gun was manned and fired, cutting away her head rails, and, what was of greater consequence, the gammoning of her bowsprit. "Hurrah, lads! the day's ours," shouted Mr Collman; "over to the starboard guns." The master was on the main-deck with the captain. "Now the battle's going to begin in earnest, Mr Merry," observed the boatswain, near whom I found myself.
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