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"I came here to ship on the lake," the boy answered. "I tried first to get a place in a store, as I promised mother, but I found no opening. I would rather be a sailor." "I am afraid your choice is not a good one; a good place on land is much better than going to sea. Have you tried to get a berth?" "Yes, I applied to the captain of a schooner, but he swore at me and called me a land-lubber."
He stood up at once, therefore, on being ordered to do so, and quietly underwent inspection. "Ha! I thought so!" exclaimed Gashford, contemptuously. "Any man could free himself from that in half an hour. But what better could be expected from a land-lubber?" Crossby made some sharp allusions to a "sea-lubber," but he wisely restrained his voice so that only those nearest overheard him.
I tried to get taken as a sailor-lad, but they seemed to expect me to have been to sea before, and to have some papers to show it. So I stowed away, and I'm very sorry if you think it dishonest, sir, but I meant to work for my passage, and I will work hard." "And what do you suppose an ignorant land-lubber like you can do, as we don't happen to be short of public speakers?"
Fantastic as the situation was, a land-lubber second in command, I was, nevertheless, carrying it off well; and during that brief time I was proud of myself, and I grew to love the heave and roll of the Ghost under my feet as she wallowed north and west through the tropic sea to the islet where we filled our water-casks. But my happiness was not unalloyed.
I shall then be able to act as guide and show you all the sights of the sea, which will be even more wonderful to you a land-lubber." "I should love to go," said the monkey, "but how am I to cross the water? I can't swim, as you surely know!" "There is no difficulty about that. I can carry you on my back." "That will be troubling you too much," said the monkey. "I can do it quite easily.
"You fellows don't need to get bad-tempered with one another," he observed. "Look here, I shall have three days here. I'll take one of you each day make a fair thing of it, eh? You to-morrow, Nichols, and you the next day Lethbridge. I'm not particular about the weather, as Job Rowsell can tell you, and I've sailed a boat since I was a boy. I'm no land-lubber, am I, Rowsell?"
He let her come and look at his book; but, to her surprise, he had before him a very easy problem in Euclid. "Indeed, if you only gave your mind to this," she said, "you would soon make it out." "Stupid stuff!" exclaimed Sam. "It is all along of that, and the rest of it, that I have got to be a land-lubber!" and he threw the book to the other end of the room.
"Here's Tom Bourne!" said Charley; and altering his manner from the patronising key in which he had spoken to Mary, he addressed a weather-beaten old sailor who came rolling along the pathway where they stood, his hands in his pockets, and his quid in his mouth, with very much the air of one who had nothing to do but look about him, and spit right and left; addressing this old tar, Charley made known to him his wish in slang, which to Mary was almost inaudible, and quite unintelligible, and which I am too much of a land-lubber to repeat correctly.
I had not earned that high privilege. I had not endured the miseries they had endured as maltreated boys or bullied ordinaries. Worse than that, I was a land-lubber making his first voyage. And yet, by the injustice of fate, on the ship's articles I was their equal. My method was deliberate, and simple, and drastic.
Sure you know of old, that Jack will have his joke, and means no harm. Besides, he's only a land-lubber, after all." "Well, pepper away, brave boys! pepper away! I'll have my revenge on you all yet!" continued the trooper. "You won't inform, will you?" exclaimed Springall, ever ready for a fray, pushing his beardless face close to the weather-beaten countenance of sturdy Roupall.
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