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Updated: May 23, 2025
The ridiculous gunboats, identified with this Administration, derisively nicknamed "Jeffs" by the unbelieving, were called into service to arrest the evil; but neither their numbers nor their qualities fitted them to cope with the ubiquity and speed of their nimble opponents. "The larger part of our gunboats," wrote Commodore Shaw from New Orleans, "are well known to be dull sailers."
Then, apparently satisfied with the boy's promise of amendment, "Jack Robinson," otherwise Tom Jeffs, worked away at the model, till the gun was fixed amidships, and the anchor swung to her bows, the cable having been knotted on, and the neatly coiled rings placed inside a little hatch in front.
Then Carew, looking at him there, would quickly turn his face away and tell another tale. But oftener the master-player stayed all night at the Falcon Inn with Dick Jones, Tom Hearne, Humphrey Jeffs, and other reckless roysterers, dicing and flipping shillings at shovel-board until his finger-nails were sore.
One night Jeffs came down with fever through bathing in the mountain streams, a practice which did not hurt us but which natives of the country cannot do in safety, and I confess I was scared. Jeffs pulled through in a few days. It was odd that the man who had lived here eleven years should have been the only one to give up throughout the whole trip and he was a good sport, too.
The Captain glanced round, but there was nothing, save the breaking waves sweeping over the deck, and the fog shutting all in. "Quick, sir, please," shouted the first lieutenant. "Yes, go now, Jeffs," said the Captain hoarsely, and he bent down and kissed his boy. "After you, sir," said the coxswain. "Go, sir, instantly!" roared the Captain. "What! and leave you here?" cried the man. "Not me.
It is true they were but of humble pretensions, situated on what was then the library staircase, and it would appear that he was a kind of inmate with Jeffs, the butler of the society.
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