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I think a ten 'll get ye a clearance. 'No objection to that, says I, and in we went, and there sat the justice, face as long and sharp as a marlinspike, in a dirty old hole, that looked like our forecastle. 'Bad affair this, Jack, says he, looking up over his spectacles. 'You must be locked up for a year and a day, Jack.
Captain Deadeye was a staid, wall-eyed veteran, with his coat of a regular Rodney cut, broad skirts, long waist, and stand-up collar, over which dangled either a queue, or marlinspike with a tuft of oakum at the end of it it would have puzzled old Nick to say which.
I was aware that success in life depended on my own energies, and I looked forward to a brilliant career in the arduous calling which I had embraced. Like Ancient Pistol, I could say, "The world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open!" With this difference, that I proposed to substitute, for the present at least, a marlinspike for the sword.
He also boasted of his skill in navigation, and according to his own story could handle a quadrant or even a sextant as adroitly as a marlinspike. It was finally settled that he should act as skipper on this voyage, provided he would promise to keep sober.
This crew's dissatisfied; this crew don't vally bullying a marlinspike; this crew has its rights like other crews, I'll make so free as that; and by your own rules I take it we can talk together. I ax your pardon, sir, acknowledging you to be capting at this present; but I claim my right, and steps outside for a council."
Church would not deduct from my salary the price of those genteel articles of dress, which were of no more use to me than a marlinspike to a dandy.
"Juliet Ridge will not yield, sir," quoth another. "Who is this next? a stubborn concern she must be." "The liquor is very poor." Here he helped himself to rum and water, the rum coming up about an inch in the glass, regular half and half, fit to float a marlinspike. "It is more than yours is," thought I; and I again stared in wonderment, until I perceived he spoke of the juice of a cane patch.
"Then would you kindly go to Captain Spark and ask him for a left-handed marlinspike? We need it to splice this hawser with. He keeps it in his cabin because there's only one on board and it's quite a valuable instrument." The man spoke as gravely as a judge. "A left-handed marlinspike?" repeated Bob. "I suppose one of the sailors must be left-handed," he thought.
"There's no occasion, my dear old fellow, to do anything." He was taken aback. "Well, I don't understand you, Mr Walton. You're the last man I'd have expected to hear argufy for faith without works. It's right to trust in God; but if you don't stand to your halliards, your craft 'll miss stays, and your faith 'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike."
"Ay, an' a friend was helpin' him, an' here's a dozen of us a-helpin' of one supercargo." "And I'm much obliged to you, Mr. Bulger. But what were you cheering for?" "Cheerin'! Why, you wouldn't guess. 'Twas General Clive, matey." "General Clive!" "Ay, General Clive, him what chased the mounseers out o' Fort St. George with a marlinspike.
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