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Updated: June 25, 2025
It was about the time we had promised ourselves dinner, and in fact our black guide and Pegtop had dismounted, to make their preparations. "Why, we surely cannot dine here? you don't mean to drink of that stagnant pool, my dear sir?"
Well, she might be returning; and as she could not then say more than she had said, in merely passing without a pause, I concluded to wait for a short time and see what would come of it. After a short time I looked about me a little, and I saw Dickon Hawkes Pegtop, as poor Milly used to call him with an axe in his hand, prowling luridly among the timber.
I say, Pegtop, bring me my uniform that's right now my sword never mind the pantaloons, I want them to see that it's all fudge about the feather now my hat that's right now go before me, and fan me with the lid of that box of herrings." Pegtop did as he was bid, and Bangs followed him, affecting the most majestic walk and gravest look.
'And you must have these apples won't you? We had brought in our basket two or three of those splendid apples for which Bartram was famous. I hesitated to go near her, these Hawkeses, Beauty and Pegtop, were such savages. So I rolled the apples gently along the ground to her feet.
The next day, or rather in the same night, his Majesty's ship Rabo arrived, and the first tidings we had of it in the morning were communicated by Captain Qeuedechat himself, an honest, uproarious sailor, who chose to begin, as many a worthy ends, by driving up to the door of the lodging in a cart. "Is the Captain of the small schooner that was swamped, here?" he asked of Massa Pegtop.
I, myself, was standing forward by the long gun, when Pegtop, Bangs' black servant, came to me, and said: "Scuse me, massa captin; could ye gibe me some guns?" "Some guns," replied I; "certainly, a half dozen of them, if you wish it." "Jist de number massa told me to fotch him; tank'e, massa captin."
"Thank you for nothing, Master Pegtop," said Aaron.
'Yes, that's Meg Beauty, I christened her, when I called him Beast; but I call him Pegtop now, and she's Beauty still, and that's the way o't. 'Come, sit down now, an' make your picture, she resumed so soon as we had dismounted from our position of security. 'I'm afraid I'm hardly in the vein. I don't think I could draw a straight line. My hand trembles.
Bangs was greatly startled at this unexpected salute, for he had forgotten his heroic deeds of yesterday, and did not know what to attribute it to; at last the cause of it seemed to strike him, for he rushed back to the tent with a roar of laughter. I went down into the cabin and sat down to breakfast with Gelid and Wagtail. Suddenly we heard Bangs cry out, "Pegtop! come here, Pegtop do you hear?
So saying, Pegtop, Chew Chew, and Yampea, each shouldered two muskets apiece, and betook themselves to the after part of the schooner, where they forthwith set themselves to scour, and oil, and clean the same, in a most skilful manner. I expected the breeze would have freshened as the day broke, but I was disappointed; it fell, towards six o'clock, nearly calm.
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