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"Can't," said the captain, grinning more broadly. "I've got the United States mails on board. Right to-day this boat's in the government service. Do you want to have the poor old captain keelhauled by Uncle Sam? And the great city of Skyland, all disconsolate, waiting for its mail? I'm ashamed of your extravagance, J. P."
"Sometimes I think there is such things as what old Parson Danvers used to call 'dispensations. This was one of 'em. There was a feller in a uniform cap steering the dingey, and, b'lieve it or not, I'll be everlastingly keelhauled if he didn't turn out to be Ben Henry, who was second mate with me on the old Seafoam. He was surprised enough to see me, and glad, too, but he looked sort of worried.
"Oh, that's different!" said J.W., greatly relieved. "Parrots?" asked Ben. "Poll parrots? Well, I'll be keelhauled!" "Mah we 'd! Ah knowed parrots could talk an' use de mos' obstreperous vocabulary at dat," declared the negro cook, "but Ah done suspected dat dey was men, fo' shuah Ah did."
You'll be keelhauled, or triced up by the thumbs, or spread-eagled over a boiler but you'll navigate. Now, shut up." There was silence for a while, then one said: "You spoke about getting on deck again, Jenkins. Got any plan?" "Want to go on deck now and stand watch in this storm?" Jenkins retorted. "No; not unless necessary." "Then get into your bunk and wait for this to blow over.
"But, Cap'n Nelson, I wouldn't like to be left behind, sir, when it comes to the dangerous part of the business, like I was on the night when the paymaster burned that house. I want to go with you to the end, sir, an' if I ever show the white feather, then may I be keelhauled!" Frank assured him that he would be allowed to accompany them wherever they went, and the coxswain departed satisfied.
While the two had been at work, he had come around the shore unobserved, and now stood at some little distance, smiling at them calmly. "Well, what do you want?" cried Moran angrily. "If you had your rights, my friend, you'd be keelhauled." "I tink um velly hot day." "You didn't come here to say that. What do you want?" "I come hab talkee-talk."
The captain fully agreed with the coxswain, and when the latter was dismissed, he gave his pants a vigorous hitch, and said to himself, "If Mr. Nelson don't get another stripe around his arm now, may I be keelhauled." And one, to have seen him, would have thought that he was as much pleased at the prospect as though he was about to receive the appointment himself.
When Queenie slipped a little and scrambled in the unstable sand he uttered such an exclamation as might have been wrung from him at time of stress upon his quarter-deck. "I swan! I'd rather be keelhauled than do this," burst from his lips finally. But they were well into the gully now. The walls on either hand towered far above their heads.
"What were you doin' in there?" Sandy gulped convulsively, feeling at his scraggy throat, where an Adam's apple was working up and down. Speech was scared out of him, and he could only roll his eyes at them. "You damned young traitor!" said Lund. "I'll have you keelhauled for this! Out with it, now. Who sent ye? Deming?" "You've got him frightened half to death," intervened Rainey.
Thankful, can't you see " "Yes. Oh yes. I can see. . . . Now let's talk about Jedediah. Do you think " "Jedediah be keelhauled! Will you marry me, Thankful Barnes?" "Why no, Obed; of course I won't." "You won't? Why not?" "Because well, because I I can't. There, there, Obed! Please don't ask me again. Please don't!" Captain Obed did not ask. He did not speak again for what, to Mrs.
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