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"Board of the privateer, Mr Oxbelly?" "Yes, sir, would go; told her it was impossible, but she wouldn't listen to reason came on board, flopped herself into the standing bed-place, and said that there she was for the cruise little Billy with her " "What! your child, too?"
She will take up more than her share of the bed, and won't allow me to sleep single; but never mind that, sir; now will you please to muster the men?" "If you please, Mr Oxbelly." The men were mustered, and Jack made them a long speech upon subordination, discipline, activity, duty, and so forth.
"I should think about five miles, or rather less." "Trim sails, Mr Oxbelly perhaps we may cut one or two of these off steer in-shore of them." "Exactly. Up there, my lads, set top-gallant studding sails, top-mast studdings to hand rig out the booms keep as you go now, my lads we shall be well in-shore of them, and out of the range of the batteries."
Jack, with the greatest politeness, took off his hat, and told him that it was the Rebiera letter of marque, and that the papers were ready for his inspection. "And the other vessels?" "Prizes to the Rebiera, cut out of Malaga Bay," replied Jack. "Then you are a privateer," observed the disappointed officer. "Where are your papers?" "Mr Oxbelly, oblige me by bringing them up," said Jack.
"By all power, she no fool of a woman dat," said Mesty, as she retreated curtseying; "I tink Mr Oxbelly very right sleep tingle." We have now come to the end of our hero's adventures; that afternoon they all started for Forest Hill, where everything was ready for their reception.
"Yes, two years old fine boy always laughed when the guns were fired, while his mother stood on the ladder and held him on the top of the booby-hatch." "I wonder that Mrs Oxbelly let you come here now?" "So you would, sir, but I'll explain that she thinks I'm in London about my half-pay.
She was in excellent trim, and flew through the water; the wind was fair, and by night they had passed Portland Lights, and the next morning were steering a course for the Bay of Biscay without having encountered what they feared more than an enemy a British cruiser to overhaul them. "I think we shall do now, sir," observed Mr Oxbelly to our hero; "we have made a famous run.
"Board of the privateer, Mr Oxbelly?" "Yes, sir, would go; told her it was impossible, but she wouldn't listen to reason came on board, flopped herself into the standing bed-place, and said that there she was for the cruise little Billy with her " "What! your child, too?"
Mrs Oxbelly and Billy were on deck the whole time and Billy was quite delighted, and cried when they took him down to breakfast." "Why, Mrs Oxbelly must be very courageous." "Cares neither for shot nor shell, sir laughs when they whiz over her head, and tells Billy to hark. But, sir, it's not surprising; her father is a major, and her two brothers are lieutenants in the bombardiers."
"I dare say Mrs Oxbelly would make a very good Chancellor of the Exchequer," replied Gascoigne, smiling; "one thing is certain, that if they gave the subject half the consideration they have others of less magnitude, an arrangement might be made by which his Majesty's navy would never be short of men."
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