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In a few minutes seven bells were struck, the log hove, the watch called, and we went to breakfast. Here I cannot but remember the advice of the cook, a simple-hearted African. ``Now, says he, ``my lad, you are well cleaned out; you haven't got a drop of your 'long-shore swash aboard of you.
In fine, both at sea and ashore, according to his theory, jolly Jack has little to do but make love, sing, dance, and drink grog being 'his sheet-anchor, his compass, his cable, his log; and in the True British Sailor, we are told that 'Jack is always content. Now, Jack knows very well this is all 'long-shore palaver, and he gives a shy hail to such palpable lime-twigs.
On a sudden eight bells rings out sharply from the forecastle head, and you spring back from your world of fancy as hurriedly as Cinderella returned to her rags when long-shore midnight chimed.
He spoke with the peculiar word-sparing vividness of the man to whom the Almighty had vouchsafed the mysterious gift of handling other men. "Long-shore and deep-sea fishermen, good material, damned good, but they took a lot of coaxing." He paused and contemplated his hands resting on his knees. Scarred by frost-bite they were, with huge bones protruding like knuckle-dusters.
Semmes, who had taken command of the new ship, duped them, and got his vessel safely out of English waters. Private detectives and long-shore customs officers had been visiting the ship daily on visits of examination; but, by the aid of champagne and jolly good-fellowship, their inexperienced eyes were easily blinded to the manifest preparations for a warlike cruise.
It seemed as though we had been forgotten by the world, belonged to nobody, would get nowhere; it seemed that, as if bewitched, we would have to live for ever and ever in that inner harbour, a derision and a by-word to generations of long-shore loafers and dishonest boatmen. I obtained three months' pay and a five days' leave, and made a rush for London.
"I must unship that peg and put it a bit lower," he said, as he had said a hundred times before. Then he went into the little dining-room and sat somewhat heavily down, with his two hands resting on his knees. He looked puzzled. "Truth is, my dear," he said breathlessly, "I don't seem to take to this long-shore life. I I rather think of going back to sea. There's plenty will give me a ship.
"It may have been a Chinese bear," said Dick dreamily "a Chinese lady bear of high degree." I gave him up. "It is there that I am going, with an extra hand to bail her Just one single long-shore loafer that I know. He can take his chance of drowning while I sail and sail and sail her, For the Red Gods call me out, and I must go."
"They have stove the boat with cold shot, and the men are in the water." "Let them stay there," said the pirate. "Now, Craddock, you know where you are. You are aboard my ship, the Happy Delivery, and you lie at my mercy. I knew you for a stout seaman, you rogue, before you took to this long-shore canting. Your hands then were no cleaner than my own.
I saw all this as the revenue cutter's boats separated, one making for the chasse-maree, and the other dashing after the flying long-shore squadron; and as I dragged at my oar, I had the pleasure of seeing that we must either be soon overhauled, or else leap out into the shallow water, and run for it, and I said so to my companion. "Oh, hang it, no," he cried; "pull on.
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