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"Our store-room is at your disposition," said the captain of the "Guadala", and his eye brightened; for a few lead splashes on gray paint make a big show. "Mr. Davies, go aboard and see what they have to spare to spare, remember. Their spar-colour with a little working up should be just our freeboard tint." "Oh, yes. I'll spare them," said Mr. Davies savagely.
The shoal-buoy has been lost," said the captain of the 'Guadala'. "Ah? I do not know this river. That was very sad. But as I was saying, when an accident saves me from being sunk, what can I do but go away if that is possible? But I fear that I have no coal for the sea voyage. It is very sad." Judson had compromised on what he knew of the French tongue as a working language.
The captain of the "Guadala" bit his moustache furiously, and muttered in his own tongue: "This land is the father of great villains and the stepfather of honest men. You see our material, Captain. It is so everywhere with us. You have killed some of the rats, I hope?" "Not a rat," said Judson genially. "That is a pity.
"They do not see. They do not hear," he cried. "Ten thousand saints! They sleep, and I have won battles! Ha!" He started forward to the gun, which, very naturally, was loaded, pulled the lanyard, and woke the dead night with the roar of the full charge behind a common shell. That shell mercifully just missed the stern of the "Guadala", and burst on the bank.
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