growles

Updated: June 11, 2025

I only wish we had dropped him overboard with a shot round his feet long ago." It was the boatswain who spoke. "I didn't think of the shot, as I suppose that would stop him from coming up again, and haunting the ship," remarked old Growles; "that's what I was afeered of."

William Henry Giles Kingston - Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures