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I always knew you were a bad aig, Peterkin roared; and as there was nothing to be made from Harold, he changed his seat to try his tactics elsewhere. Left to himself, Harold had time to think of the diamonds, which, indeed, had not been absent from his thoughts a moment, since Jerrie gave them to him.
"Jack, my dear boy," said Peterkin gravely, "you are really becoming too fond of jesting. It's a thing I don't at all approve of; and if you don't give it up, I fear that, for our mutual good, we shall have to part." "Well, then, Peterkin," replied Jack with a smile, "what would you have?" "Have?" said Peterkin. "I would have nothing. I didn't say I wanted to have; I said that I wanted to do."
But, in doing this, we run the risk of being captured by the ill-disposed tribes, and being very ill used, if not a " "Roasted alive and eaten," cried Peterkin. "Come, out with it, Jack; according to your own showing, it's well to look the danger straight in the face!" "Well, that is the worst of it, certainly. Are you prepared, then, to take your chance of that?"
Peterkin was wrong, however, in his estimate of savage gratitude, as the sequel will show. The schooner was now put before the wind, and, after making a long run to the south'ard, we put about and beat up for the south side of Mango, where we arrived before sunset, and hove-to off the coral reef. Here we awaited the arrival of a canoe, which immediately put off on our rounding to.
"Then we might have had ice-cream all the time!" exclaimed the little boys. Indeed, the little boys, in spite of the prospect of starving, were quite pleasantly excited at the idea of being snowed-up, and hurried through their breakfasts that they might go and try to shovel out a path from one of the doors. "I ought to know more about the water-pipes," said Mr. Peterkin.
It dived in a moment, and, a few seconds afterwards, came out of the water far ahead with such a spring, and such a dive back into the sea again, that we could scarcely believe it was not a fish that had leaped in sport. "That beats everything!" said Peterkin, rubbing his nose, and screwing up his face with an expression of exasperated amazement.
"Well, suppose I were to print it, and send it to you in the form of a book, would it not be as good and useful as ever?" "Oh, bother! Jack, you're a philosopher, and that's worse than anything!" cried Peterkin, with a look of pretended horror. "Very well, Peterkin, we shall see," returned Jack, halting under the shade of a cocoa-nut tree.
Solomon John thought they ought to practise getting on by themselves, for soon the Atlantic would lie between her and them. Mrs. Peterkin thought they could telegraph. Elizabeth Eliza wanted to submit to her two or three questions about the supper, and whether, if her mother were Queen Elizabeth, they could have Chinese lanterns. Was China invented at that time?
"Well, suppose I were to print it and send it to you in the form of a book, would it not be as good and useful as ever?" "Oh, bother! Jack, you're a philosopher, and that's worse than anything!" cried Peterkin with a look of pretended horror. "Very well, Peterkin, we shall see," returned Jack, halting under the shade of a cocoa-nut tree. "You said you were thirsty just a minute ago.
Rest yourself now, and take care of Peterkin, while I go out to see what the pirates are about. I'll be very careful not to expose myself, and I'll bring you word again in a short time." "Very well, Ralph," answered Jack; "please yourself. But don't be long.
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