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"Ay, ay," growled a grim rammer-and-sponger behind me; "it's all devilish fine for you nobs to look at; but what would you say if you had to holy-stone the deck yourselves, and wear out your elbows in polishing this cursed old iron, besides getting a dozen at the gangway, if you dropped a grease-spot on deck in your mess? Ay, ay, devilish fine for you, but devilish dull for us!"
And a real colonel has called him 'Comrade-in-Arms', which is exactly what Lord Roberts called his own soldiers when he wrote home about them. The shadow of the termination now descended in sable thunder-clouds upon our devoted nobs.
No sooner had I espied them than I determined to possess one of them; nor did it take me long to select a beautiful young stallion a four-year-old, I guessed him. The horses were grazing close to the edge of the forest in which Nobs and I were concealed, while the ground between us and them was dotted with clumps of flowering brush which offered perfect concealment.
"She's a mighty game youngster," declared O'Grady, admiringly. "I didn't know they raised 'em like that in the East." "I'll swear I didn't. Lucky for His Nobs she didn't let a bullet into him by mistake." "Oh, I don't know. It's a case of 'eventually, why not now?"
I had given her the commander's room, Bradley and I taking that of the deck-officer, while Olson and two of our best men occupied the room ordinarily allotted to petty officers. I made Nobs' bed down in Lys' room, for I knew she would feel less alone. Nothing of much moment occurred for a while after we left British waters behind us. We ran steadily along upon the surface, making good time.
"Good job, too," said the thrush; "I wish mine was a cocktail, and then I shouldn't have had these nobs of clay sticking to it;" saying which he showed his neighbour three or four little clay-pellets attached to his tail-feathers, evidently caught up when fetching his mortar from the pond side.
She was not a bad boat for smooth water, but if caught in a heavy sea, very likely to drown all on board. Our crew consisted of a Frenchman, Paul Jacotot, the owner of the Dore, as our craft was called, his son Auguste, a boy of thirteen, and Jack Nobs, a boy I brought from the Barbara. The Frenchman was to act as pilot and cook.
If any of them blooming niggers tries to h'interfere, boys, you jest fetch 'em a crack on the shins with yer dancing pumps; it's no good trying to hit 'em on their nobs, as they're made of the same stuff of the cocoa-nuts, and you might hit at 'em till doomsday without ever their feelin' on it, jist the same as if ye were hammerin' at the watertight bulkhead forrud!" No sooner said than done.
"Yes," said the doctor; "you might have got all the nobs of the profession, and I don't believe they could have done better." "No," said Captain Horton rather coldly. "You have worked hard, Doctor Bolter." "Hard? I should think I have. I tell you what it is, sir, you would not have felt more pleased than I do if you had been made an admiral."
At last I turned in and fell asleep, dreaming happy dreams and planning for the future, for even in savage Caspak I was bound to make my girl safe and happy. It was daylight when I awoke. Wilson, who was acting as cook, was up and astir at his duties in the cook-house. The others slept; but I arose and followed by Nobs went down to the stream for a plunge.
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