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"Oh, Marse Houghton! come quick," yelled the negro. "She'm won' float anoder minit!" "Bail, you lubber!" "Don got notin to bail wid!" "As usual," growled Houghton. All the rest were now silent. In his agonized apprehension for Mara and Ella, Bodine felt his heart beat as it had never done in the bloodiest battle.
Hazel, "it is only fair you should also hear how he accounts for his proceeding." The captain listened attentively to the explanation, and altered his tone. "Oh, that is a different matter," said he. "You need be under no alarm, sir; the thundering lubber knows what he is about, at that work. Why, he has been a ship's carpenter all his life. Him a seaman!
He seized the helm, and discharged a loud volley of curses at Jack. "Fling out ballast, ye d d cowardly, useless lubber," cried he; and while Jack, who had recoiled into his normal state of nerves with almost ridiculous rapidity, was heaving out ballast, David discharged another rolling volley at him. "Oh, pray don't!" cried Lucy, trembling like an aspen leaf.
"You'll do nothing of the sort, you lubber!" roared Black; "but what you take you'll pay for, d'ye hear me? then shut your mouth up and go aboard." John was not the only man who was struck by the skipper's whim. There were mutterings on the deck below, and Dick, who had come from the conning-tower, was bold enough to make remark.
"What's that to you, if I were to call it a bowsprit? Ain't I your captain, you lubber, and so, sure to be right, while you are wrong, in the natural order of things? But you go and lay down, Master Varney, and rest yourself, for you seem completely done up."
It being Ralph's first experience afloat, the swift, gliding motion and the noisy engine interested him greatly. The novelty was, in its way, as exciting as his first car ride. "What is it makes things go?" he asked of Bludson, who was sprawled upon a coil of cable, smoking a short black pipe. "The ingine and the propeller, ye lubber," replied the latter. "Did 'e think it was wings?"
You hear me? and hang up that skipper for a thin-skinned fool." "By thunder, I'm yours all along," replied "Roaring John "; and then he sang out, "Hands for the launch!" "You'd better go as cox," said Osbart to me, "you'll be amused"; and suggested it to Black, who turned upon me a look almost of hate. "Yes, he shall go," he cried; "if we swing, he shall swing, the preaching lubber!
"Lost his head!" says Benbow; "the lying fellow, why he told me it was his leg; but I never in my life believed what he said without being sorry for it afterwards." A painter was employed in painting a West India ship in the river, suspended on a stage under the ship's stern. The captain, surprised at the boy's delay, cried out, "Heigh-ho, there, you lazy lubber, why don't you let go the painter?"
The two new apprentices had been set on to sharpening the weapon points as all that they were capable of, and had been bidden by Smallbones to turn and hold alternately, but "that oaf Giles Headley," said Stephen, "never ground but one lance, and made me go on turning, threatening to lay the butt about mine ears if I slacked." "The lazy lubber!" cried Ambrose.
'We've picked up a lubber in New Bedford town, Come away, away, sto-r-m along, John, Get a-long, storm a-long, storm's g-one along, 'Our lubber's lugger-rigged, and we'll do him brown, Come away, away, sto-r-m along, John, Get a-long, storm a-long, storm's g-one along.
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