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A frigate wouldn't have been too much to pay for so much spirit and coolness, had there been such a thing on Ontario, as there is not, hows'ever, or likely to be." "But Jasper you have not yet told me how he got the command of the schooner." "It is a long story, Mabel, and one your father, the Sergeant, can tell much better than I; for he was present, while I was off on a distant scouting.
I wonder," said Tom, "if he was to rub some of it inside o' your skull, whether he could grow you a noo set o' brains." "I say, Bill," interposed Ben Bolter, "did you hear the first lieutenant say where he intended to steer to?" "I heard somethin' about Gibraltar, but don't know that he said we was goin' there. It's clear, hows'ever, that we must go somewhere to refit before we can be of any use."
"I can soon tell 'ee that," said the seaman, turning slowly on his couch. "Lie still, now, you must not move," said Sam, remonstratively. "But that not movin', doctor, is wuss than downright pain, by a long way. Hows'ever, I s'pose I must obey orders anyhow you've got the whip hand o' me just now. Well, as I was sayin', the yarn ain't a long 'un.
"Hows'ever," continued Molloy, "as they don't worrit us about religion, except to give us a good word an' a blessin' now an' again, and may-hap a little book to read, we all patronises the house; an it's my opinion, if it was twice as big as it is, we'd fill it chock-full.
'I dare say I didn't make myself very clear, he went on, 'nor you neither. Naturally, we was both of us inclined to give such a subject a wide berth. Hows'ever, at last I have made up my mind to speak plain; and I have mentioned to Doctor Strong that did you speak, sir? This was to the Doctor, who had moaned. The sound might have touched any heart, I thought, but it had no effect upon Uriah's.
Didn't ye hear a word about them matters and something more, eh? No, I don't think ye did; how could ye? Who knows it? Not all Nantucket, I guess. But hows'ever, mayhap, ye've heard tell about the leg, and how he lost it; aye, ye have heard of that, I dare say. Oh, yes, that every one knows a'most I mean they know he's only one leg; and that a parmacetti took the other off."
Hows'ever, it got me my discharge, and that's how I come to be in a Yankee merchantman this good day." At the mention of battle and being wounded in action, the old professional sympathies of John Adams were awakened. "What battle might that have been?" he asked. "Which?" said Jack. "Traflegar," said the other.
Hows'ever, there they wos, and there Jinkinson wos, till he wos took wery ill with some inn'ard disorder, lost the use of his legs, and wos confined to his bed, vere he laid a wery long time, but sich wos his pride in his profession, even then, that wenever he wos worse than usual the doctor used to go down-stairs and say, "Jinkinson's wery low this mornin'; we must give the bears a stir;" and as sure as ever they stirred 'em up a bit and made 'em roar, Jinkinson opens his eyes if he wos ever so bad, calls out, "There's the bears!" and rewives agin.
"What, dat!" exclaimed the old woman in consternation. "You don't mean dat! Well, lord! I'se offen hearn tell of de 'Debbil's Icy Peak, but I nebber expected to cotch my eyes on it, much less lib on it, I tell you all good!" "That's it, hows'ever, Mrs. Gorilla," said Mr. Frisbie.
Hows'ever, 'Good-mornin'! I calls out, in my well-known hearty manner. But he didn' speak nor turn. 'Mornin'! I says again. 'Can 'ee tell me what time 'tis? for my watch is stopped' which was a lie; but you must lie now and then, to be properly sociable.
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