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Updated: June 29, 2025
I have drawn for more money than I want. I wish you would let me be your banker for a hundred pounds, Tom." I squeezed his hand. "No, no many, many thanks, my dear sir but I never outrun the constable. Goodbye, God bless you. Farewell, Mr Wagtail Mr Gelid, adieu." I tumbled into the boat and pulled on board.
When we boarded, the Wave had been left with only Peter Mangrove; the five dockyard negroes; Pearl, one of the Captain's gigs, the handsome black already introduced on the scene; poor little Reefpoint, who, as already stated, was badly hurt; Aaron Bang, Paul Gelid, and Wagtail.
"Pah botheration there are pelicans then; but you know it is not an Upas tree, you know it is all a chimera, and, like the air drawn dagger of Macbeth, 'that there is no such thing. Now, that is a good burst, Gelid, my lad, a'nt it?" said Bang, as he drew a long breath, and again launched forth.
Don't say nothin' more about dat." "Very well," said I; "and is Master Gelid going to fight." "B'lieve he will; fust rate friend of massa Bangs good at shootin' ducks, too guess he'll fight." "Ah," said I, "your friends are all heroes, Pegtop. Will Master Wagtail also fight?"
The second, which treats of Diet, is necessarily less attractive, as the topic is less susceptible of ornament; yet in speaking of water, he has contrived to embellish it by some lines, which are, perhaps, the finest in the poem. Now come, ye Naiads, to the fountains lead; Now let me wander through your gelid reign. I burn to view th' enthusiastic wilds By mortals else untrod.
Mother, still unable to lift her feet from the floor, opened the door to us, and reaching her, as I did, through that terrifying tempest, made her seem as lonely as a castaway on some gelid Greenland coast. Father was in unwonted depression. His crop had again failed to mature. With nearly a thousand acres of wheat, he had harvested barely enough for the next year's seed.
The poor fellow had just time to cry out, "Take that cold hand off my heart!" when his chest collapsed, his jaw fell, and in an instant his pulse stopped. "Dead as Julius Caesar, Captain," said Gelid, with his usual deliberation. Dead enough, thought I; and I was leaving the cabin to resume my post on deck, when I stumbled against something at the ladder foot. "My, what is that?" grumbled I.
"Lord," said Wagtail, "why, the yam is not half done." "But the rum is ah!" drawled Gelid. "D n the yam and the rum too," rapped out Bang. "Why, you belly gods, you have interrupted such a torrent of eloquence!" I began to guess that our friends were waxing peppery.
A heavy splash followed, and, simultaneously, several of the men forward shouted out "Ship MI of water water up to our hammocks;" while Waggy, who had rolled off his narrow couch, sang out at the top of his pipe, "I am drowned, Bang. Tom Cringle, my dear Gelid, I am drowned we are all drowned the ship is at the bottom of the sea, and we shall have eels enough here, if we had none at Biggleswade.
"D n the expense," rejoined my jovial ally; "why, the hot little epicurean Wagtail, and Gelid, cold and frozen as he is, have both taken a fancy to me and no wonder, knowing my pleasant qualities as they do ahem; so, for their sakes, I volunteer on this piece of knight errantry as much as'
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