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Updated: June 3, 2025
He's talked the Vicar into getting them little bags for collections now, all because he was jealous at the clerk's putting the plate inside my pew reg'lar for me to hold. It isn't that I care about 'olding a plate, but to see 'Umpage smirking round with one of them red velvet bags makes me downright sick they'll drive me to go over and be a Baptist one of these fine days. 'You don't like Mr.
"And what became of the rest of the officers and crew of the merchantman?" asked the commander. "They were mostly expended before we boarded," answered Dillon, coolly. "They were knocked on the head by our shot; others who resisted were cut down, and the remainder were taken on board our vessel." "Are they still on board her?" asked Commander Olding.
"And, do you know, Norah," continued Gerald, "I've made up my mind to go on board a man-of-war. They all say that Captain Olding will take me, and place me on the quarter-deck, if Mr Ferris introduces me and would say a word in my favour; so if our father approves of it, I hope to go at once, instead of waiting for the Ouzel Galley."
Commander Olding and his officers had, of course, to report themselves to the admiral, and to give an account of the loss of the Champion. They had to undergo the usual court-martial, and were, as was expected, honourably acquitted.
Notwithstanding the severe punishment she was receiving, the French frigate gave no signs of surrendering. "We can tackle her now, I think, by ourselves," observed Captain Olding to his first lieutenant. The commodore, however, had no intention of allowing his small consort to do that. His first broadside had cut away many of the braces of the French ship, and severely wounded her mainyard.
Dillon and his antagonist had made several cuts at each other, which had been parried with equal skill by both, when the pirate, hearing what Captain Olding shouted out, sprang back apparently to regain his own ship.
"I daresay I shall be better to-night, Ginger," ses Bill, very humble; "it don't always take me that way. "Well, we don't want you with us any more," ses old Sam, 'olding his 'ead very high. "You'll 'ave to go and get your beer by yourself, Bill," ses Peter Russet, feeling 'is bruises with the tips of 'is fingers. "But then I should be worse," ses Bill. "I want cheerful company when I'm like that.
When he dashed off to rebuke them, the Lower Fourth and Upper Third began with one accord to be sick, loudly and realistically. Mr. Mason tried, of all vain things under heaven, to argue with them, and a bold soul at a back desk bade him "take fifty lines for not 'olding up 'is 'and before speaking."
The Frenchman has no stomach for a fight, that's very certain; those privateersmen prefer plunder to glory. If Olding doesn't ply him briskly with his guns, the chase will get away after all. I had hopes of seeing the Coquille brought in here as a prize; we could then have afforded to forgive her captain the trick he played us."
"We knew Mr Foley, the second lieutenant of the Champion, very well in Dublin, when she lay at Kingstown," observed Mr Ferris "a fine young fellow. I am sure also that you have described Captain Olding truly." The captain was all the time pulling away with might and main, now looking ahead to judge of the direction to take, and now watching the two ships.
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