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It's not the warfare I like best of the two." "Both good, Massa Easy; suppose you no steal board of polacca ship, you not see Missy Agnes." "Very true, Mesty. 'Bout ship, Mr Oxbelly." "Mr Oxbelly not good for boat sarvice," observed Mesty, showing his teeth. It was dark before the Rebiera was anchored in the outer roads, a cable's length astern of the outermost American vessel.
"If no ab noting to do it will be damned 'tupid," continued Mesty. "Now then the other side of the question. If we steer for Palermo, we shall be sooner there and sooner home." "To which I reply," said Gascoigne, "that the shorter the cruise is, the less I shall have of your company." "And I shall have to sleep with Mrs Oxbelly," continued Oxbelly.
This did not, however, check the impetus of the boats, who, with their ensigns trailing in the still water astern of them, dashed alongside, and an officer leaped on board, cutlass in hand, followed by the seamen of the frigate. The men of the Rebiera remained collected forward Easy, Gascoigne, and Oxbelly aft. "What vessel is this?" cried the lieutenant who commanded the boats.
The fire-engine was got on deck, sails wetted, and every exertion made to come up. But about four o'clock in the afternoon, when the frigate was eight or nine miles off, it fell calm, as Gascoigne had predicted, and the heads of all the vessels, as well as the frigate, were now round the compass. "There's out boats," said Mr Oxbelly; "they will have a long pull, and all for nothing."
"As certainly as I'm here, and Mrs Oxbelly's at Southsea," said Oxbelly, "they'll take some of the men the more so as, supposing us to be a Spanish convoy, they will be disappointed." "They will hardly take them out of the prizes," observed Easy. "I don't know that; men must be had for his Majesty's service somehow.
"Massa Easy, you get eberybody out of scrape; you get me out of scrape." "I do not recollect how, Mesty." "You get me out from boil kettle for young gentlemen dat devil of scrape." "And I'm sure I've got you out of a scrape, Mr Oxbelly." "How so, Mr Easy?" "How so! have I not prevented your quarrelling with your wife every night?" "Certainly, sir, you have been the means.
"I should think about five miles, or rather less." "Trim sails, Mr Oxbelly perhaps we may cut one or two of these off steer inshore 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 lad we shall be well inshore of them, and out of the range of the batteries."
"Well, sir, I can say no more," said Jack, walking aft to the taffrail, to which Oxbelly and Gascoigne had retreated. "Come, my lads, get those men in the boat," said the lieutenant. But the men had all retreated forward in a body, with Mesty at their head, and had armed themselves.
"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.
"Agnes will be better defended going home by men who have been accustomed to be in action. And, as for her waiting a little longer, it will only make her love you a little more." "Sleep single a little longer, Mr Easy, it's very pleasant," said Mr Oxbelly. "That's not very bad advice of yours," observed Gascoigne. "Stop a little, Massa Easy," said Mesty, "you know dat very good advice."
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