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"There!" he blurted, turning his gaze on Hiram, perched on the grating. "If you reckon you've got enough of a sail out of this, we'll put about for harbor. But I want it distinctly understood that I ain't sayin' the word 'enough. I'd keep on sailin' to the West Injies if we had grub a-plenty to last us."
She should be the sharer av our heart an' throne. Her lovely brow should be graced by the crown av Spain an' the Injies. She should be surrounded by the homage av the chivalry av Spain. She should fill the most dazzlin' position in all the worruld. She should be the cynosure av r'y'l majistic beauty.
And you mind her son, my Lady, him that went for a marine, and what terrible shakums he had when he comed back from the Injies. And I consider that they stolen chimases is a jidgment, my Lady, a jidgment for the mischief her fowls have done in my garden "
To which Martin replied, in his ignorance, that he thought he could stand anything; and Barney roundly asserted that, having been burnt to a cinder long ago in the "East Injies," it was impossible to overdo him any more.
"No; honour bright!" exclaimed Slidder, with, for the first time, a somewhat abashed look in his face; "I wouldn't for the wealth of the Injies say a word to nobody wotsomever. It's only atween ourselves that I wentur's to " "Well, well; enough," said I; "don't in future venture to do it even between ourselves, if you care to retain my friendship. Now.
Scores of men was discharged, but Jan said we should do better to stay, for there wasn't nowhere for us to go to if we went, and he'd a got fond of the sojer's life, as I had, so long as I was with he; and they was glad to keep so fine a man. But then the war come again, and a terrible way I was in, for they said the ridgment was sure to be sent soon to the Injies or some place.
I was once aboard of a brig called the Black Snake, hailin' from Liverpool, and tradin' between the West Injies and the Guinea coast. We'd made a fine run across from Barbadoes, and was within a week's run of the Old Calabar river when it fell calm with us, just as it have done now.
"Colonel Fitzdenys, I should say, whom I mind as the captain's lieutenant; come back only yesterday safe and sound from the Injies." "That's well," said Sally, "for a fine brave gentleman he is, as never passes me without a kind word.
To which Martin replied, in his ignorance, that he thought he could stand anything; and Barney roundly asserted that, having been burnt to a cinder long ago in the "East Injies," it was impossible to overdo him any more.
Hans Schuyler has not got the wheel to-night you see he was three sheets in the wind anyhow, and the captain, says, 'Hans, says he, 'don't tech another drop this night, or we'll never see another mornin' till we are resurrected, and so he turned into his hammock and swung himself to sleep a way he had, for he didn't keer for nothin' where his comfort was concerned, having been raised up in the Injies."
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