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Now, although certainly there was a want of decorum on the quarter-deck, still, the captain having given permission, it was to be excused; but Mr Phillott thought otherwise, and commenced in his usual style, beginning with the marine officer. "Mr Westley, I'll trouble you not to be getting upon the hammocks. You'll get off directly, sir.
Still Captain Kearney, although a brave and prudent officer one who calculated chances, and who would not risk his men without he deemed that necessity imperiously demanded that such should be done was averse to this attack, from his knowledge of the hay in which the brig was anchored; and although Mr Phillott and O'Brien both were of opinion that it should be a night attack, Captain Kearney decided otherwise.
That Phillott and many others who have served under him have learnt his bad habit." "I should think, O'Brien, that the very circumstance of having had your feelings so often wounded by such language when you were a junior officer, would make you doubly careful not to make use of it to others, when you had advanced in the service."
"Yes," replied Captain Kearney, "very close, indeed, if it were true; but you'll excuse me, Mr Phillott, but you sometimes tell strange stories. I do not mind it myself, but the example is not good to my young relation here, Mr Simple." "Captain Kearney," replied the first lieutenant, laughing very immoderately, "do you know what the pot called the kettle?"
O'Brien immediately stepped out of the boat, and going up to Mr Phillott, touched his hat, and said, "Mr Phillott, we had the captain's permission to catch the shark, and a shark is not to be got on board by walking up and down on the quarter-deck.
Still, Captain Kearney, although a brave and prudent officer one who calculated chances, and who would not risk his men without he deemed that necessity imperiously demanded that such should be done was averse to this attack, from his knowledge of the bay in which the brig was anchored; and although Mr Phillott and O'Brien both were of opinion that it should be a night attack, Captain Kearney decided otherwise.
O'Brien immediately stepped out of the boat, and, going up to Mr Phillott, touched his hat, and said, "Mr Phillott, we had the captain's permission to catch the shark and a shark is not to be got on board by walking up and down on the quarter-deck.
"It is a pity, for he's a smart officer; but the fact is, Peter, that junior officers are too apt to copy their superiors, and that makes it very important that a young gentleman should sail with a captain who is a gentleman. Now, Phillott served the best of his time with Captain Ballover, who is notorious in the service for foul and abusive language. What is the consequence?
"I will save you the trouble; Captain Kearney is now coming up, and I will report it myself." This O'Brien did, upon the captain's putting his foot on the quarter-deck. "Well," observed the captain to Mr Phillott, "what is it you complain of?" "Mr O'Brien's language, sir. Am I to be addressed on the quarter-deck in that manner?"
"Because I know that some people, by constantly telling a story, at last believe it to be true; not that I refer to you, Mr Phillott, but still I should recommend you not to tell that story where you are not well known, or people may doubt your credibility." "I make it a rule to believe everything myself," observed Mr Phillott, "out of politeness; and I expect the same courtesy from others."
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