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I daresay if he ever gets through the Golden Gate he'll call up at the office." "Skinner, I can't wait that long. Many things may happen. Ahem! Harump-h-h-h! Wire the man Peasley, Skinner, to have his photograph taken and forwarded to me immediately charging expense." "Very well, sir," Mr. Skinner responded. "Well, I'll be keel-hauled and skull-dragged," Matt Peasley declared to Mr. Murphy.
Tanrade has told me much. You know as well as I do, the village is a nest of gossip that they make a mountain out of a molehill; if I were a pirate chief and had captured this vagabond port, I'd have a few of those wagging tongues taken out and keel-hauled in the bay." He started as if in pain, and again turned his haggard eyes to mine.
I hear you have long followed the sea, Cap'n Sproul I believe that's the name, Cap'n Sproul?" "Sproul it is, ma'am Aaron for fore-riggin'. Them as said I follered the sea was nearer than shore-folks us'ly be. Took my dunnage aboard at fourteen, master at twenty-four, keel-hauled by rheumatiz at fifty-six wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that. I ain't stuck on a penny-flippin' job of this sort."
"What have you got to say for yourselves, eh, for taking leave in French fashion like that? Why, you ought to be keel-hauled both of you!"
"And I, sir," howled his opponent, "will have you put in irons; I will have you chained to the crow's-nest, if they have one on board. Keel-hauled, sir, amongst the barnacles and things. I, sir, I am a Lieutenant-General." Draycott was still slightly dazed when he landed in Malta.
But to his grief and disappointment he was not there, and Mr Vanslyperken sat in the stern sheets, in no pleasant humour, thinking whether it was or was not a paving-stone which Smallbones had thrown into the canal, and resolving that if the dog did not appear, Smallbones should be keel-hauled. There was, however, one more chance, the dog might have been taken on board.
He has not come up on deck for nothing, and yet he appears to be strangely puzzled: the fact is, by the arrangements of last night, it was decided, that this morning, if Snarleyyow did not make his appearance in the boat sent on shore for fresh beef for the ship's company, the unfortunate Smallbones was to be keel-hauled. What a delightful morning for a keel-hauling!
You'd better port your helm and about ship, or you'll be keel-hauled." "D n your " "What's the matter?" inquired Marchdale, as he arrived. "What's the cause of all the noise we have heard?" said Sir Francis; "has some village festival spontaneously burst forth among the rustics of this place?"
"Ha, ha, ha!" he laughed good-naturedly. "I see. I've keel-hauled your Romeo stunt, eh? Want the stuff?" He kicked the supplies interrogatively. Ootah sadly shook his head. He dully heard the vulgar gibes of the white men and the mocking laughter of Maisanguaq. One of the natives began beating a drum. Ootah giddily caught an evanescent vision of women dancing with reeling traders.
If we're peaceable, what's to prevent you from givin' us a passage back to San Francisco, where we're known an' where we'll have at least a fightin' chance to git somethin' to eat occasionally." "You know mighty well what's to prevent me, Gib. I ain't got no passenger license, an' I'll be keel-hauled an' skull-dragged if I fall for your cute little game, my son.
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