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'You'll find water just over that rise there. I'll light the fire. 'So you've been over this part before, said Jim, unstrapping the billy from his mate's swag. 'No; this is new country to me. 'Then, how do you know I shall find water beyond that hillock? ''Pon my soul, I don't know why I know, Mike answered; 'but I'll wager my share of our first tub it's there. Jim found the water.
The birds, as they neared them, seemed to take no heed till they attempted to land, and Mark could not help noticing the annoyance painted in the mate's face, as, eager to have a shot at the fine fat-looking fellows, he saw them move off in a rapid run. "Row a little farther," said the captain.
Whether the mate's face was clean or dirty had no bearing upon westing. Later on, when 50 degrees south in the Pacific had been reached, Joshua Higgins would wash his face very abruptly.
But even as he climbed a little farther aft to reach down to it, he found himself actually straddling the bodies of the missing mate and boy, who were cowering under the rail, supported by their feet against the steering-gear boxing. Like a thunderclap the whole cause of the disaster burst upon his mind. The mate's feet planked against the spokes of the wheel suggested it.
He did not take his eyes from it; he stood at the rail gazing, intent, absorbed. He did not hear the mate's brief order that summoned him and the others across the deck. "When I go out on de fishin' boat," he said aloud, thinking Dan was still at his side, "a girl was singin' an' " "Here, you!" cried the mate. "What's the matter with you? Why don't you?"
"No, no, one at a time," he cried angrily, as the men sprang up together. "We must not capsize the boat here. Now you, my man," he continued, sitting fast, as the sailor stepped across and took the mate's place before Mr Gregory rose. "Now you, Widgeon."
The very day on which the egg hatched, Father Albatross returned from his morning flight so full of what he had seen, that he hardly paid any attention to his mate's announcement of the addition to his family. "'Could you leave the nest for a quarter of an hour, my dear? he asked. "'Certainly not, said Mother Albatross; 'as I have told you, the egg is hatched at last.
He expressed his wish in no way to incommode Mademoiselle, as he called Norah, and declared that he should be perfectly satisfied to occupy the second mate's cabin, and would on no account turn her or her father out of theirs.
The walls were of iron, and the roof was of iron; the place was a perfect stronghold in its way; and as there was no chance of its being stormed without due notice, they tacitly called a halt to recover breath. "Here," said Sheriff, "is the poor old skipper's whisky. I guess a second mate's nip all round will do us no harm."
"Anything to oblige," said Kettle, and took his thumb out of the third mate's windpipe. "And now, sir, as you've so to speak signed on for duty here, away with you on deck and get those four other beauties up out of the boat." Dayton-Philipps touched his hat and grinned. "Ay, ay, sir," he said, and went back up the companion.
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