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As you're in such a deuce of a hurry, I think we'd better see the Midshipmite." I measured him with my eye, but at once gave up all thoughts of mastering him if I attempted violence in leaving the room. He was taller than I, broader across the chest, older, his limbs better knit, and in every way the more powerful.
"I think," said I, as we prepared to descend from our lofty perch, "I'm sure it's just er that kind of thing that brought one Francis Drake out of so very many tight corners. By the way do you smoke?" My Midshipmite blushingly confessed he did, and helped himself from my case with self-conscious fingers. The gunner glanced at me, and I shall never forget that look.
To the end he was "Sailor Bill" a sort of grown-up midshipmite, whose weaknesses provoked no more condemnation than the weaknesses of a child. In the theater he had the tidy habits of a sailor. He folded up his clothes and kept them in beautiful condition; and of a young man who had proposed for his daughter's hand he said: "The man's a blackguard! Why, he throws his things all over the room!
"Clap on here, Peg," cried the woman to another, "and let's have this little midshipmite; I wants a baby to dry nurse." At one moment I thought it was all over with me, and in the next I was with my own men.
Here I took leave of my Midshipmite, who stood among a crowd of his fellows to watch me down the gangplank, and I followed whither I was led very full of thought, as well I might be, until rousing, I found myself on the deck of that famous Warspite, which our foes are so comfortably certain lies a shattered wreck off Jutland.
The Princess was no less gracious, for all danced with her who chose, from the Lord High Admiral to midshipmite and the crew of the captain's gig. You will read of these things in the pages of Lutka, Sir George Simpson, Sir Edward Belcher, and other early voyagers. They vouch for the unique charm of the colonial life at that day.
But in a minute or two, a woman came in from the street, with her long black hair hanging about her shoulders, and her cap in her hand. "Well," cried she, "they've nabbed my husband; but I'll be dished if I hav'n't boxed up the midshipmite in that parlour, and he shall take his place."
Upon this there entered the room he whom the coxswain had spoken of as the Midshipmite, and who I rightly conjectured to be in authority over these dare-devils. He was a young man wearing his own hair, which was bright red. His face was all covered with pimples, and his mouth was harelipped from a sword cut.
Are you a waterman, duly entered at your Hall, and all arrears paid up, or an apprentice, carrying your indentures with you?" "I am not, and I don't know what you mean." "Then the fact of the matter is," said the Midshipmite, with a chuckle, "that we've got the law of you.
"The fact of the matter is that we always do it to save time and trouble," answered the Midshipmite "Easy and quiet is the word at the 'Admiral Benbow." "I'll have the law of you!" I exclaimed, in a rage. "Exactly so," quoth the Midshipmite, quite politely. "May I ask if you're a free-man of the City of London?" "I am not." "Precisely so.
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