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Updated: June 19, 2025
The gunner was an old man-o'-war's man and was completely overwhelmed by the grateful and heartfelt thanks of the passengers, he, in his native modesty, apparently thinking he hadn't done any more than he ought to have done, which indeed was very true. But if he had missed! There was only one sad mishap throughout the entire excitement.
He certainly seemed well pleased with himself, and more than once, as he sat alone, he laughed outright, and once he said aloud, as his fingers ran up and down a schedule not a man-o'-war's schedule laughing softly: "Poor old Farquhar, if he could see me now!"
I, on the other hand, would have violently explored the Thames in a man-o'-war's barge if I could have done it no other way. We talk of the charm of the open road, but what is it to the charm of the open river, especially when the stream gets narrow? There, if anywhere, reigns the Genius of the Unexpected.
Why, I'd I'd make lop-scouse o' the King." "Come, that's treason. You shan't speak treason in my company, Bill McCoy. I'm a man-o'-war's man. It won't do to shove treason in the face of a mar-o'-wa-a-r. If I am a mutineer, w'at o' that? I'll let no other man haul down my colours. So don't go shovin' treason at me, Bill McCoy." "I'll shove treason w'erever I please," said McCoy, fiercely.
I don't like them, and they don't like me." "Of course you don't like the young scoundrels, sir; but they can manage a boat." "I'd rather not go now, uncle," said the boy, sadly. "And I'd rather you did. There, go at once, while the weather's fine, and make that old man-o'-war's man help you to come back?" "Tom Bodger, uncle? But how's he to get back?"
Dan interrupted, brushing into the knot of men with a long board on legs. "Get out o' here, Tom Platt, an' leave me fix the tables." He jammed one end of the board into two nicks in the bulwarks, kicked out the leg, and ducked just in time to avoid a swinging blow from the man-o'-war's man. "An' they did that on the Ohio, too, Danny. See?" said Tom Platt, laughing.
He threw all his strength into the hauling, aided by the man-o'-war's man's last remaining force; no little either, for despair gave the poor fellow a spasmodic kind of power, so that the rope passed through the ring and whizzed and quivered, it was so tight.
Jenks backed toward us, and Bell tried to hold Andrews back. He partly succeeded, but was close enough to the old man-o'-war's man to get a slight cut from a blow meant for Andrews. Then England took a hand, and with Journegan they held the assassin in check. Jenks came toward us.
"If you'll pass the pannikin, I'll take a drink, sir," said Jenks, after the sun had risen and warmed the chilly air of the southern ocean. I tossed the old man-o'-war's man the measure, and he proceeded to draw a cupful from the water breaker, which was full and lay amidships.
I had my own suspicions without the doctor's, and they were soon confirmed by the coming of the big three-masted lugger, which was brought close in by the man-o'-war's men, who landed with a lieutenant at their head, and came up the Gap to see our condition. He was a bright, manly fellow, and my father and he became friends at once, while he was quite humorous in his indignation.
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