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You'll only make 'em want to bite. But they wouldn't take no notice o' what I said, sir, and kep' it up till the poor chaps turned savage like, and it was hooroar, and all the fat in the fire." "Stop, sir!" cried the captain, sternly. "Speak plain English, sir." "Yes, sir; that's what I'm a-trying to do, sir."
"She was that," said Captain Tom; "the best ship I ever sailed in, barring the Hebe Maitland." Whereat Stevey Todd said, "There was a ship!" and Uncle Abimelech piped up again, singing these singular words: "There was a ship In Bailey's Slip. One evil day We sailed away From Bailey's Slip We sailed away, with Captain Clyde, An old, old man with a copper hide, In the Hebe Maitland sailed, Hooroar!
"Go!" was the laconic reply; and in an instant the lad realised that the Maori had partly comprehended his words that evening, had thought out the full meaning, and then crept silently to the convicts' den, and secured the arms. Don rose excitedly to his feet. "The time has come, Jem," he whispered. "Yes, and I dursen't shout hooroar!"
And now, Mas'r Harry, I proposes that we all go back and see what the Indians are doing; and if they are not gone, why, we'll all fire our guns off one after the other, as'll kick up such a hooroar as'll scare 'em into fits." Tom's advice found favour; but it was not until I had thoroughly satisfied myself of the security of my enemy's bonds that I had the heart to leave.
Pen pressed it upon the man again, and Punch groaned; but the man rejected it, once more thrusting the knife back with both hands, and then laughingly pointed down to Pen's boots. "What does he mean by that, Punch?" cried Pen. "Haw, haw, haw, haw!" laughed the boy. "He wants you to give him your boots." "Nonsense!" "Here, give us hold of my knife. Hooroar! Sharper, I have got you again!
I stopped then, to wave my hat, and dear old Joe waved his strong right arm above his head, crying huskily "Hooroar!" and Biddy put her apron to her face. I walked away at a good pace, thinking it was easier to go than I had supposed it would be, and reflecting that it would never have done to have had an old shoe thrown after the coach, in sight of all the High Street.
And he's spotted, and I know with what, and with whose. Hooroar! Bradley slept long. Early in the afternoon a barge came down. Other barges had passed through, both ways, before it; but the Lock-keeper hailed only this particular barge, for news, as if he had made a time calculation with some nicety.
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