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Together they lay motionless upon the deck, Harry and Nep, when the captain coming along would have stumbled over them, had he not caught at a halliard near by. "What in the name of things unheard of, is all this?" exclaimed he, with an oath; "this indeed is a curious beginning for the little land-lubber!
When dad wanted to tease me he always called me a 'land-lubber. And even when a kid I would always fight at that." She paused a moment. Then went on: "I'd like to do what I can for you for two reasons. Your father did a lot for mine. He was one of my few friends. I'd like to give his son a hand if it would help.
"I am a soldier by profession," answered Lance, "but for all that I am not exactly an unmitigated land-lubber; on the contrary I am quite an enthusiastic yachtsman, and I flatter myself that I know a good model when I see one." "And yet you don't take much account of the brig, stranger?"
But among the sailors, he looked like a land-crane blown off to sea, and consorting with petrels. The forlorn Rope Yarn, however, was by far the most remarkable figure. Land-lubber that he was, his outfit of sea-clothing had long since been confiscated; and he was now fain to go about in whatever he could pick up.
The sight of it is enough to frighten a land-lubber into hysterics, and conjure up a hurricane in the harbor before we can let go the sheet anchor. Down with you; vanish! Tumble into your berth! Take another long and strong nap, and then turn out a fresh man, and show yourself a sailor; or you'll rue the day when you first tasted salt water!"
So the land-lubber, afraid to refuse to do anything, rushes about distracted, and does nothing: in the end receiving a shower of kicks and cuffs from all quarters. Added to his other hardships, he is seldom permitted to open his mouth unless spoken to; and then, he might better keep silent.
Through many a windy night he slept as soundly as a sailor in a breeze which might disturb the nerves of a land-lubber.
Thereupon a voice, fetched from some profounder source than the back of the head, "Steward! bring me my Oh! A land-lubber again, am I!" Mr. Balder Helwyse now sits up in bed, his hair and beard, which are extraordinarily luxuriant, and will be treated at greater length hereafter, his hair and beard in the wildest confusion.
As he says of himself, "I am not a land-lubber, and I have sailed every sea and ocean." And he winds up his letter with: "Although not wishing to offend, it would be madness to take any woman outside the bay even, in such a craft."
Their purpose, whatever it might have been, was arrested for a moment by Bunks suddenly shouting at the top of his lungs "Light on the starboard bow!" "That's a lie," said Jager, savagely; "use yer eyes, you land-lubber." "We're running straight on the North Foreland," cried Job, who, with his companion, suddenly stopped and gazed round them out ahead in alarm.
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