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Updated: May 18, 2025
In England, or in any other great mercantile country, the bulk of the things bought and sold goes through the hands of a wholesale dealer, and it is he who higgles and bargains with an entire nation of purchasers by entering into treaty with retail sellers.
Some of us would be satisfied with small concessions, some ask for more, some demand all; and as the Government higgles with some, and hangs the others, they mystify us all, and end by confounding us. 'That is to say, you are terrified. 'Well, if you like that word better, I'll not quarrel about it. 'I wonder how men as irresolute ever turn to rebellion.
"Aye, 'tis like t' be a dangerous complaint down here on The Labrador, where we folk have poor means for caring for our sick," agreed Skipper Ed, dropping into the dialect of the people, as he often did when conversing with them. "But you have a schooner, and you're not so badly off as we are in our tents." "My eyes!" repeated Captain Higgles. "Measles! 'Tis like t' ruin th' v'yage!"
"No, sir," said Jimmy, "we wouldn't turn up our nose at anything good to eat." "I could eat the oarlocks this minute!" broke in Bobby. At which Captain Higgles exclaimed, "My eyes! Oh, my eyes!" and indulged in another burst of hearty guffaws. "Well, b'ys," said the captain, "I know how you feels, an' I knows where you'll get th' tea and th' biscuit.
"I finds th' young scallawags driftin' around th' sea, and bearin' no course whatever," explained Captain Higgles, "an' I picks un up as salvage. But I don't want un. My eyes! I don't want un. I don't want any such two scallawags as they about the Good an' Sure.
Someone asked him 'How many children had Dr. Annesley? 'I forget for the moment, said the doctor, but 'tis either two dozen or a quarter of a hundred. And here's a woman, sir, with such a sense of her offspring's importance that she higgles over accepting a fortune for one of 'em!" "Can you suffer this, ma'am?" Garrett Wesley began.
You'll be all right, but it'll be some time. Can't weigh your anchor and hoist your sails for a little while. Better luck by and by, though." "What's th' matter with un, Skipper?" asked Captain Higgles when they were again on deck. "Measles," answered Skipper Ed. "Measles! Measles!" exclaimed the Captain in instant consternation. "My eyes! Oh my eyes! And we're all like to cotch measles!
And so it came about that Bobby and Jimmy were presently aboard the Good and Sure, satisfying an accumulated and vast appetite upon Captain Higgles' good hardtack and tea, while the schooner laid her course for Itigailit Island.
And whatever brings you driftin' around the sea at this time of the mornin', and with nary an oar?" exclaimed the man astern, who proved to be Captain Higgles of the Newfoundland fishing schooner Good and Sure, who for as long as the lads could remember had anchored for at least one night each summer on his outward voyage down north, or on his homeward voyage south, in the shelter of the island upon which Skipper Ed had always fished, or behind Itigailit Island.
"My eyes!" said Captain Higgles. "Measles! 'Tis a wonderful dangerous complaint. I minds when th' folks cotched un one summer in Black Run Harbor, and most every one that cotched un died! Oh, my eyes!"
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