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Updated: May 23, 2025
With these words, Pegtop and the two other blacks, Chin-Chin and Zampa, Wagtail's and Gelid's servants, took a couple of guns apiece, and providing themselves with the necessary ammunition, went aft, and began carefully cleaning and oiling the weapons. I had expected that the wind would blow fresher at daybreak, but I was mistaken.
Crack went the strands of the rope under the paws of the Titan, whereby the head of the outermost sailor pitched right into Gelid's stomach, knocked him over and capsized him head foremost into the wind sail which was let down through the skylight into the little well cabin of the schooner.
The warrant officer drank it, and vanished, and presently Mr Gelid's brother, who had just returned from one of the out islands, made his appearance, and after the greeting between them was over, the stranger advanced, and with much grace invited us en masse to his house.
"No chance of our removing to Peter Gelid's this evening." "Why?" I asked. "Oh, poor Pepperpot Wagtail is become alarmingly ill; inflammatory symptoms have appeared, and" Here the colloquy was cut short by the entrance of Mrs Peter Celid a pretty woman enough.
"Why," said Bang, in the same steady low tone, "you shall do as you please, ah," and here he very successfully imitated our amigo Gelid's drawl "and as best suits you, ah; but I have consulted the gunner, an old ally of mine, who, to be plain with you ah says that the danger from splinter wounds below, is much greater than from their musketry on deck ah the risk from the round shot being pretty equal ah in either situation."
At this announcement you could have jumped down either Wagtail's or Gelid's throat, Wagtail's for choice without touching their teeth.
But this proving too hot for comfort, he instantly drew it out, and in his attempt to reascend, he stuck his bespattered toe into Paul Gelid's mouth.
"Ah!" said he half asleep, and but partly overhearing what was going on; "ah, Tom, my dear, you don't say that we shall all be handed down to our poster" a long yawn "to our poster" another yawn when Bang, watching his opportunity as he sat opposite, gently touched one of the fore legs of the balanced chair with his toe, while he finished Gelid's sentence by interjecting, "iors," as the conch fell back and floundered over on his stem; his tormentor drawling out in wicked mimicry.
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