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It is but just to say that Tommy's threat was uttered more than half in jest. He would as soon have thought of "wopping" a little girl as of maltreating his meek companion. But Peekins was uncertain how to take his threat, so, not being desirous of a wopping, he held his tongue and humbly followed his comrades.
"D'you think so?" said Peekins, with a doubtful look; "don't you think the man who does only two nasty things is better off than the one that does three?" "Nasty things!" exclaimed Tommy in a tone of amazement. "Don't Bax drink and smoke, and d'ye think he'd do one or t'other if they was nasty?
Having tasted no food since breakfast, Peekins gladly accepted the invitation, and ate heartily of the remnants of the meal, to the great satisfaction of his companions, especially of Tommy, who regarded him as one might regard a pet canary or rabbit, which requires to be fed plenteously and handled with extreme gentleness and care.
Peekins was changed from a tiger into a clerk; and, in process of time, came to keep the books of that celebrated firm in which he had originally figured as a spider in blue tights and buttons. Bax and Tommy sailed together for several years.
Being of a sociable disposition, Tommy deemed it prudent to press Peekins into the service, and Peekins, albeit not pugnacious by nature, was quite willing and ready to follow wherever his sturdy little friend chose to lead. So they all set off, along the road that skirts the beach, towards Saint Margaret's Bay.
"Is there one of the name of Bax 'ere," said the meek voice. "Here I am," shouted Bax, "come in; what d'ye want with me?" Peekins entered in a state of great agitation. "Oh! sir, please sir, I'll never do it again; but I couldn't help it indeed, indeed I was dyin', I was. It's a great sin I knows, but " Here Peekins burst into tears, and sat down on the seat opposite.
Just at this moment the rest of Coleman's friends, including Tommy Bogey and Peekins, appeared on the scene in breathless haste, having been attracted by the pistol-shot. In the eager question and answer that followed, Long Orrick was for a moment not sufficiently guarded.
Tommy burst into a laugh at this, and Peekins, feeling somewhat relieved, smiled idiotically through his tears. "Well now, my lad," said Bax, leaning forward in a confidential way which quite won the affection of the tiger, and patting him on the shoulder, "I would advise you strongly to go back." "Oh! sir, but I can't," said Peekins dolefully. "I dursn't. My life is miserable there.
Peekins, you small villian as was a blue spider only a week since, if you ever talks of them things being nasty again, I'll wop you!" "You hear that, Bax?" said Guy Foster, who, being only a few paces ahead of the boys, had overheard the remark, spoken as it was in rather a loud key. Bax nodded his head, and smiled, but made no reply.
Just as the captain made this reckless offer to sacrifice his timbers, Peekins formerly the blue tiger entered the hovel, and going hastily to Bluenose, whispered in his ear. A very remarkable transformation had taken place in the outward man of poor Peekins.
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