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"Now, Grummidge," he said, in a low but earnest voice, "it's of no use your objectin' any more, for I've made up my mind to do it." "Which means," returned the seaman, "that for the sake of savin' my life, you're a-goin' to risk your own and the lives of all consarned. Now it's my opinion that as the sayin' goes, of two evils a man should choose the least.
But Grummidge did not fulfil his promise. Seating himself with his back to a tree, his bows and arrows ready to hand, and actuated by a firm resolve to watch with intense care, he fell fast asleep, and the whole party snored in concert. About fifty Indians, who had joined the original attacking party, had waited patiently for this state of affairs.
The mate looked pointedly at Grummidge as he spoke; but Grummidge, being a modest man, pretended not to see him. "Yes, yes, you're right, sir, Grummidge is the very man," cried Stubbs. "Hear, hear," chorused several of the others. "Come, old boy, you'll do it, won't you? and we'll all promise to back you up."
"Right you are, Grummidge," replied the poor man in a faint voice, "so little time that if you leave me here the boys will only find some human beef to carry back, an' that won't be worth the trouble." "Don't say that, old chap," returned the other, in a low, gruff voice which was the result of tender feeling. "Keep up heart bless you, I'll be back in no time."
But all the other prisoners, Grummidge, Stubbs, Blazer, Taylor, and Garnet, were equally reduced and miserable, for the harsh treatment and prolonged journeying through forest and swamp, over hill and dale, on insufficient food, had not only brought them to the verge of the grave, but had killed outright one or two others of the crew who had started with them.
"Well, yes, it would interest me greatly to hear the sentence of the learned judge whoever he is." The fingers of the man fumbled as he spoke at his waist-belt, near the handle of his knife. Observing this, Grummidge kept a watchful eye on him, but did not abate his nonchalant free-and-easy air, as he stepped close up to him.
Pessell and Mortair. ‘DR. GRUMMIDGE stated to the section a most interesting case of monomania, and described the course of treatment he had pursued with perfect success.
From this simple classification, however, were excepted swans, geese, eagles, and hawks. "Well, Grummidge, what may be your notion?" asked Stubbs. "My notion is seals! For all our hard rowin' and wastin' of arrows we've failed to catch or kill a single seal, though there's such swarms of 'em all about.
In the midst of this they were interrupted by the arrival of Big Swinton, George Blazer, and Grummidge with another find, which afterwards cost them much trouble and regret namely, a couple of young lads, natives, whom they led into camp with their wrists tightly bound behind their backs.
It was covered on the under side throughout its entire length with a double row of suckers. Grummidge, who was prone to observe closely, counted them that night with minute care, and came to the conclusion that the creature must have possessed about eleven hundred suckers altogether. There was also a tail to the fish which Squill called a "divil-fish" shaped like a fin. It was two feet in width.
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