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Updated: June 1, 2025
The local larrikins called him "Grog," a very appropriate name, all things considered; but to the Geebung Times he was known until the day of his death as "a well-known character named Bogg."
This allusion to the `Jaunty' silenced the incorrigible Larrikins for the nonce; though he sniggered at Mick saying `downstairs' instead of below, as most landsmen do when new to board-ship life. The next moment, however, Master Larrikins was at it again, trying to `take a rise out of me, Mick having thus discouraged his advances in that direction.
"Now, men," shouted out Captain Hankey, who had dismounted from the shoulders of the `jollies' who had been carrying him in the place of Larrikins since the latter's tumble, and was now seated on the stump of an old tree in the middle of the clearing, surrounded by us all and commanding a view of every part of the square, "aim low, and don't waste a shot; but, wait till I give the word!"
"Well, ye wouldn't 'a saved it, me joker, if I hadn't missed yer all of a suddink," replied Larrikins, grinning; for I believe he could not have helped laughing, his disposition was so humorous, if a fellow had told him his father was dead! "I wer' a-wondering where yer wer', Tom, when I see'd a troop of big black monkeys makin' fur this very grove where we is.
"No, no, that won't wash," said Larrikins, in a chaffy way, catching hold of a fine-looking malacca cane the old fellow was leaning on, and which seemed more fit for a grand seignior than a beggar. "None of your bono johnnies with me, you old reprobate.
He now burst into tears at his secret wealth being thus brought to light; judging, no doubt, from what he knew of the morals of his own countrymen, that Larrikins and I were going to appropriate it to our own use.
"Faith, it smills good," exclaimed Mick, with a loud and prolonged sniff of enjoyment, on the friendly Larrikins anon placing a bowl of the steaming compound under his nose on the mess-table. "A'most as good as tay, begorrah!" "Ga-a!" cried our caterer. "Only a Paddy wud say that!"
Hearing the row and the sound of our talking after `lights out! had been called, one of the ship's corporals came up with a lantern to see what was the matter; and he at once spotted Master Larrikins. "Hi, young feller!" said he to that arch-conspirator; "what are you doing here? How's it you haven't turned in on the lower deck, in your proper billet?"
Yer oughter be ashamed on yerself, yer ought, axing fur charity from poor sailors like we you with this fine walkin'-stick here, good enough for `old Hankey Pankey' hisself!" With that, Larrikins, wrenching the malacca from the unwilling hands of the old fellow, gave it a shake in the air as if he were going to apply it to the shoulders of its owner.
"Say, Tom," said Larrikins to me presently, as the two of us, with a lot of the other hands, were polishing up the brasswork of the machine-guns on the upper deck, "d'yer know where we're bound in such a hurry?" "No, Larry," I replied. "Somewhere up the coast, though, I 'spect from what I told you down below." Larrikins chuckled to himself.
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