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"Well, in the nat'ral course o' timings, death is comin' to him too, an' that'll save him from bein' strung up for they're apt to do that sort o' thing hereaway in a loose free-an-easy style that's awkward sometime. I was within an inch of it myself once, all through a mistake I'll tell 'ee about that when I've got more time, maybe.
"Poh! poh! Joshua," answered Jack good-naturedly, "do n't distress yourself on a consail. In the first place, you've got no nose to be put out of joint; or, if you have really a nose, it has no joint. It's nat'ral for folks to like their own colour, and the ladies prefar me, because I'm white." "No so werry white as all dat, nudder," grumbled Josh. "I see great many whiter dan you.
At the most unseasonable hours, you would behold him, seated apart, in some corner among the guns a shot-box before him, pen in hand, and eyes "in a fine frenzy rolling." "What's that 'ere born nat'ral about?" "He's got a fit, hain't he?" were exclamations often made by the less learned of his shipmates.
My father himself was born after the English governors came among us, as I've heard him say; but it mattered not he loved Holland to the last, and the customs of his fathers." "All quite right, mother," said Marble, a little impatiently; "but what of all that? It's as nat'ral for a Dutchman to love Holland, as it is for an Englishman to love Hollands.
He was a noble dog a cross between the old Scottish deerhound and the bloodhound, and would hunt an Indian as well as a deer or bear, which, Tom said, "was a proof they Injins was a sort o' warmint, or why should the brute beast take to hunt 'em, nat'ral like him that took no notice of white men?"
"Ay, Miss, and so do many of us; but we can't be making wind no more'n we can make wittals and excusing me, Miss, it ain't Daniel, not meaning no disrespect to the other gent, whose papers were all right, I don't doubt, but my mother warn't easy in larning, and maybe didn't know of him it's Dan, Miss, free-and-easy like, but nat'ral." "Well, Dan, do you think it will blow?
"Don't go out o' the way to ask the old man," he would say, referring to the quantity of bacon to be ordered; "it's nat'ral a young gal should have her own advisers." The state of the flour barrel would also produce a like self-abasement.
"No," answered John ponderously, "no, Natty Bell, London aren't spiled him, and why, Barnabas, I'm glad to see ye, lad yes, I'm glad, and and why, there y'are, Barnabas." "Looks a bit palish, though, John!" said Natty Bell, shaking his head, "but that's only nat'ral, arter all, yes a bit palish, p'r'aps, but, man Jack what o' that?"
"Not at all," retorted the cook; "whin there's dirty work to be done, I most usually kape modestly in the background, an' lets you go first, bekase it's your nat'ral callin'. Arrah! the sun's goin' to set, boys," he added with a sigh, as he commenced to smoke.
"Speaking of knives," said another, "why don't we find his'n lying round? Flint warn't the man to pick a seaman's pocket; and the birds, I guess, would leave it be." "By the powers and that's true!" cried Silver. "There ain't a thing left here," said Merry, still feeling round among the bones; "not a copper doit nor a baccy box. It don't look nat'ral to me."
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