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'Well, I'm hanged if that isn't a little thing to make a row about. Do you reckon it shameful to be a new chum, then? 'Not exactly. No offence is intended; the men jeer out of mere harmless devilment. The new churn's got so much to learn here, he can't help looking a born fool as a general thing. 'And pea-souper and lime-juicer? 'They've been hazing you properly, mate.
And, though lime juice isn't as needful as it was, 'cause they have other things that do as well, perhaps, I always think of a Britisher as a lime-juicer." "I see," murmured Alice. "Yes, I can see the English flag," she went on, as she looked through the glass Jack passed to her. "She is headed right for us, too." "That's what I make out, Miss. And I wish it was my watch below; I sure do, Miss!"
Petrak, Buckrow, and the long lime-juicer was all pretty thick when no one was lookin' at 'em. And they don't let on to know each other, neither. Askin' one another their names when I was standin' by, and soon as my back was turned thick as flies at a molasses-barrel, sneakin' round and whisperin'. "'Who's the red chap? asks Long Jim from Buckrow, when he knows I can hear.
In such auspicious occasions all watches were his, and he strode the poop perpetually with all age-lag banished from his legs. Margaret and I were with him in the chart-room when he hurrahed the barometer, down to 28.55 and falling. And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails.
"See! they were writing up the log," said Nares, pointing to the ink-bottle. "Caught napping, as usual. I wonder if there ever was a captain yet that lost a ship with his log-book up to date? He generally has about a month to fill up on a clean break, like Charles Dickens and his serial novels. What a regular lime-juicer spread!" he added contemptuously. "Marmalade and toast for the old man!
All that Seth would say was that he had his own reasons. The rest of the town was left to guess what those reasons was. That's what the President's doin' keepin' us guessin'. By the everlastin', if I was younger I'd ship aboard a British lime-juicer and go and fight, myself!" It was Rachel Ellis who caused the Captain to be a bit more restrained in his remarks.
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