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"Here's yon curst lubberly craft carried away our starboard cat-head and six-feet o' the harpings wi't, sink him! And us but waiting for my lady to come aboard to trip anchor and away. And now here's we shorebound for another two days at the least as I'm a gunner! And all on account of yon black dog, burn him! A plaguy fine craft as sails wi' no name on her anywheres, keelhaul me else!
Mr Dugdale and Oi are now goin' below to dinner, and if ye lose soight of that loight, bedad I'll I'll keelhaul ye, ye shpalpeen. He's edgin' away off the wind, d'ye see, the blagguard!
He'll be up to some tricks or I'm a Dutchman. But we must meet him half way. Give him back some of his own coin. He's on this voyage to be cured, and I'm going to do it If I have to keelhaul him." "I guess the men will be only too anxious to do their share. They like Bob, but he mustn't play too many pranks on them." "No. Well, I guess they can look out for themselves."
He had pretty thoroughly convinced himself that the institution could not be carried on without him; and, since the principal had once objected to accepting his resignation, he had felt that his position was secure. While he was considering the matter, Mr. Lowington went on deck, and investigated the plot to keelhaul the professor.
The conspirators sprung to their feet, and nothing could exceed the consternation depicted upon their faces. They stood aghast, horrified, confounded. "It was only a joke, sir," stammered Perth, as the professor, with trembling hands and quivering lips, gazed at the paper, reading the names, and noting the signs against them. "You villains, you!" gasped he. "Keelhaul me will you?"
"He forgets how I saved him at your bungalow," said the motor wizard. "If you pulled him out of that scrape, then, keelhaul me, you deserve all he gives you!" Katz laughed in ugly fashion. "I'll get back what you and Wynn stole from me!" he remarked, stooping over to pick up the satchel. As he bent down, two things happened.
It was a great satisfaction to annoy him, independently of the result to be gained. Wilton proposed to "keelhaul" him. This was a barbarous punishment, formerly in use in the English and Dutch navies, and consisted in dragging the culprit under the keel of the vessel by ropes attached to the opposite yard-arms.
'He's to be took care of, says she, 'treated kind and gentle, says she. And, mark me, here's Belvedere's nose out o' joint, d'ye see? And, talkin' o' noses, there's your eye, Job; sink me but he wiped your eye for you, my " "Plague and perish him!" snarled Job, kicking me viciously. "Burn him, 'tis keelhaul 'im I would first and then give 'im to Pompey to carve up what remained "
"Well, just this here, sir. Messmates is messmates, and ought to help one another when there's rocks ahead." "Of course, Tom." "Well, then, as I've been thinking, suppose I come ashore with yer and follers yer right up to the captain, and lie close by when he begins to sort o' keelhaul yer?" "What good would that do, Tom?" "Cheer yer up, my lad.
"See here," cried Captain Falk, cutting off Kipping, who tried to speak at the same moment, "I tell you, Mr. Hamlin, if you thrust your oar in here again I'll thrash you within an inch of your life! I'll keelhaul you, so help me! I'll " He wrinkled up his nose and twisted his lips into a sneer before he added, almost in a whisper, "I'll do worse than that."
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