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Benbow being hoisted in his cradle on to the quarterdeck, and crying out "Good cheer, my hearties! The Frenchmen have given me a knock, but we've got 'em now and by God! we'll beat 'em!" And then they cheered him again, and he, sitting in his cradle, making nothing of his dreadful pain, gave orders and shouted encouragement for a good three hours.
He descended the stair in silence, but we heard him open the door of the public room and address the Russians, who were assembled there, warming themselves at the fire, and enjoying their pipes. "Hooray! my hearties," said Dan; "got yer broken legs rewived I hope, and yer spurrits bandaged up? Hey, och!
"Don't worry about that; they quite expect to pay more than this trumpery is worth, because it's all for charity. Now skip along, my hearties! And come back home if you get tired, no matter whether you've sold all your truck or not. I'll buy whatever you have left." So waving good-byes to the group looking after them, the children pranced gaily down the driveway and out into the street.
He was telling them that they must go to work, and make up for some of the trouble they had caused. Those who objected were to step forward. At this the three ringleaders advanced, and flatly refused to lift a hand. "Very well, then, me hearties," Bolster said, "it's either work or the tree-tops. Which do you choose?"
'Now! says I, 'ef ther's any stuff in you, J. Judkins, let's see it! says I. And I chucks myself over the side o' the rock and grabs her with the boat-hook, and hauls her in. 'All together, I says. 'Now, my hearties! Yo heave ho! and I hed her up, and hauled her over the rocks and round under the lee of the p'int, before I stopped to breathe. How did I do it? Don't ask me, Jewel Bright!
"Wet to the skin," Donaster angrily replied. "When are we to let up on this job? I'm sick of it." "Same here," his companion agreed. "Well, I guess ye'll have to make the best of it, me hearties. We'll reach the city early in the mornin', if the wind holds. Ye kin change yer clothes then." The men made no reply, but Donaster, leaving Bill to manage the sheet, scrambled over to Eben's side.
"Now, my noble hearties," he began, "we will open this auction by offering to your impartial competition a very superior pair of old boots;" and so saying, he dangled aloft one clumsy cowhide cylinder, almost as large as a fire bucket, as a specimen of the complete pair. "What shall I have now, my noble tars, for this superior pair of sea-boots?"
"Ain't we pirates, an' don't pirates live on booty?" "Booty enough you have in your boat, Jean," said I, "and let us get it aboard and in our tanks, for to-night we sail." "For to rob the store?" anxiously. "No, once more for the Spanish Main, my hearties! I seek a greater treasure; and plenty of danger, believe me, lies between here and there." "When'll we start?" queried L'Olonnois eagerly.
Topmates! has not this Tubbs here been but a misuser of good oak planks, and a vile desecrator of the thrice holy sea? turning his ship, my hearties! into a fat-kettle, and the ocean into a whale-pen? Begone! you graceless, godless knave! pitch him over the top there, White-Jacket!" But there was no necessity for my exertions.
Prudence in some positions is far better than valor. "Now, my hearties! let us get out of this harbor as soon as possible!" cried the Captain. "I might have held him till we were opposite the castle, and put him ashore there; but it is safer as it is. We have a regular clearance, and he cannot do anything legally under an hour or two at least while in half-an-hour we shall be outside.
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