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Gascoyne had calmed his feelings while the boatswain was speaking. He even smiled when he replied, "How can you ask me to give my word of honor? What honor has a pirate to boast of, think you?" "Not much, pr'aps," said Dick; "howsomdever, I'll be content with wot's left of it; and if there ain't none, why, then, give us yer word. It'll do as well."
Howsomdever, I shan't be long after him, and that's a comfort." For several hours the boats proceeded on, looking into every bay and creek for signs of inhabitants, from whom they might obtain information. At last some huts were seen, and the expedition pulled on for the shore.
I detarmined then, as soon as we shed git alongside, to put out for it, an' leave the painter to continue his voyage 'ithout me. "When I fust sighted the island I seed somethin' that; hed tuk for bushes. But thur wan't no bushes on the mound that I knowd. "Howsomdever, when we got a leetle closter, I diskivered that the bushes wur beests.
Howsomdever, I landed, you can believe that, you know." "Oh yes, we can quite believe, Jack, that, if you were there, in that canoe, in that back water, with the land close ahead, you did land." The sailor looked searchingly at Ruthven and then continued: "I hauled the canoe up and hid it in some bushes, and it were well I did, for a short time afterwards a great " and he paused.
"Maybe it did," muttered Tom to himself, "howsomdever, I'll keep a bright look-out thereabouts, and I've a notion that some day I'll catch the mole coming out of his hole." The next day the inspecting commander of the coastguard, and another magistrate and two more lieutenants arrived, and a grand consultation was held.
We, of course, didn't dare to move, hoping that they would give up the chase and go back again. "`We must not be too sure that they won't look for us when they do come back, said Jack. `Howsomdever, there's no use crying out till we're caught.
"D d first," said the boy; "open the lid, Dick, let's have a look." "Ah, you're a rum un," said Dick, "arter my own heart. I sometimes thinks as you must be a nevy, or some sort of relation of mine. Howsomdever, here goes.
I took the lid to split into paddles, and I saw on it a plate with the words 'Joseph Middles, aged sixty-four; and I couldn't imagine how in thunder that ever got on that lid. Howsomdever, I pulled over to the shanty and got some lines and bait and floated out again, thinking while I was here I might as well get a mess of fish before I got home.
"Of coorse, he landed fust; an' I could hear by the stompin' o' hoofs, that his suddint appearance hed kicked up a jolly stampede among the critters upon the island. I could see both deer and mar dancing all over the groun', as if Old Nick himself hed got among 'em. "None o' 'em, howsomdever, thort o' takin' to the water. They hed all hed enough o' that, I guess.
The poacher's reply was characteristic: "As you means it kindly, Master Horsehair, I won't take it for an insult: howsomdever, either your hand or mine, I won't say which, is too dirty for shaking. Let me do you a good turn, Master: there's a blue-bottle on your wig; I think as it's Beelzebub a-whispering in your ear: allow me to drive him away."
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