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Updated: June 22, 2025
And Wooden-leg Larsen, who in winter is quite the well-to-do pensioner, in blue pilot-coat and fur cap, leaves his pretty, solidly-built cottage when the Spring comes, and sallies forth into the world as a poor organ-grinder he tells them of the Zoological Gardens on the hill, and the adventurous Holm-Street, and of extraordinary beings who live upon the dustbins in the back-yards of the capital.
"Well, Bluenose, hoo d'ye find yerself to-day?" inquired Supple Rodger one fine morning, as the Captain sauntered slowly along the beach in front of his hut, with his hands deep in the pockets of his pilot-coat. "Thankee, I amongst the middlings. How's yerself?" "I like myself," said Rodgers; "how's old Jeph?"
"Does no one know where to find him?" asked the Captain. "I fear not," replied the doctor. "Please, sir, I think I know," said a subdued voice behind them. It was that of Gillie White, who had drawn near very silently, being overawed by the sad scene in the sick-room. "Do you, my lad? then get along as fast as you can and show me the way," said the Captain, buttoning up his pilot-coat.
Therefore. With these oracular words they seemed almost to make the Captain giddy; they launched him upon such a sea of speculation and conjecture the sage submitted to be helped off with his pilot-coat, and accompanied his friend into the back parlour, where his hand presently alighted on the rum-bottle, from which he brewed a stiff glass of grog; and presently afterwards on a pipe, which he filled, lighted, and began to smoke.
A pilot-coat or a pea-jacket is protection enough for those who do not enjoy the luxury of a tent; but the dryness and geniality of the climate are such that injury is very rarely experienced from the night exposure. There are very few women at the first opening of new diggings, the life is too rough and rude; and some of those who do come, rock the cradle but not the household one with the men.
A third time he looked back, and turned a corner; but he had scarce done so, when something knocked upon his elbow, and behold! it was the long neck sticking up; and as for the round belly, it was jammed into the pocket of his pilot-coat. “And that looks like the truth,” said Keawe. The next thing he did was to buy a cork-screw in a shop, and go apart into a secret place in the fields.
Sitting down on the cross-trees and holding on to them by his legs a matter of no little difficulty, as the vessel was rolling violently from side to side, Bax began to strip off his thick pilot-coat, intending to cover the girl with it. But he was arrested by the boy Tommy Bogey. "Hold on," he shouted into his commander's ear, "I fetched up this un; I know'd ye'd want it for 'er."
A third time he looked back, and turned a corner; but he had scarce done so, when something knocked upon his elbow, and behold! it was the long neck sticking up; and as for the round belly, it was jammed into the pocket of his pilot-coat. "And that looks like the truth," said Keawe. The next thing he did was to buy a corkscrew in a shop, and go apart into a secret place in the fields.
They float, they sail and row, they steer " "Rather badly sometimes, according to your own showing!" remarked Barret. Having cleared the Pentland Firth, Mabberly consulted the skipper one morning as to the prospects of the weather. "Going to fall calm, I fear," he said, as McPherson came aft with his hands in his pilot-coat pockets. "Ay, sir, that iss true, what-e-ver."
Presently he looked in with his pilot-coat on, and said, 'Cuttle, I'm a-going to act as convoy home; and Captain Cuttle, more to his confusion than if he had been put in irons himself, for safe transport to Brig Place, saw the family pacifically filing off, with Mrs MacStinger at their head.
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