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The grinding of the stones prevented their hearing the talk, but they knew that they were being laughed at. "Never knew a sailor yet," wheezed a portly and asthmatic captain, "who wasn't ready to sue the devil and try the court in hell when he's at sea. Trouble is, they never get past the first saloon." "They got a little law here," resumed Captain Benson, quietly. "I put them all in the guardo.
"Ave Maria purissima what is the matter? Where is el Senior Bang?" "Mucho, mucho," shouted Bang from below the table. "Send for a doctoribus, Senor Richarsum. I am dead and t'other thing help! help!" "Dios guardo usted," again ejaculated Campana. "What has befallen him?" addressing the skipper, who was by this time on his head's antipodes in bed, rubbing his eyes, and in great amazement.
I know the cause; poor fellows! perjure yourselves not again; swear not at all hereafter. Ay, these very tars the foremost in denouncing the Navy; who had bound themselves by the most tremendous oaths these very men, not three days after getting ashore, were rolling round the streets in penniless drunkenness; and next day many of them were to be found on board of the guardo or receiving-ship.
"Can't a feller be workin' here, without being 'spected of Tom Coxe's traverse, up one ladder and down t'other?" "Oh, I know the moves, sir; I have been on board a guardo. Top your boom, I say, and be off, or I'll have you hauled up and riveted in a clinch both fore-tacks over the main-yard, and no bloody knife to cut the seizing.
But the mysteries of man-of-war vice are wonderful; and it is now to be recorded, that, from long habit and observation, and familiarity with the guardo moves and manoeuvres of a frigate, the master-at-arms and his aids can almost invariably tell when any gambling is going on by day; though, in the crowded vessel, abounding in decks, tops, dark places, and outlandish corners of all sorts, they may not be able to pounce upon the identical spot where the gamblers are hidden.
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