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"Lend a hand, Davie, and bring back all the pikes and cutlasses you can carry. You, cook, clear away the stern-chasers and stand by to load them the minute the powder's up the companionway. Blodgett, you do the same by the long gun. You, Neddie, bear a hand with me to trice up the netting!" Spilling food, cups, pans, and kids in confusion on the deck, we sprang to do as we were bid.
"I never did see such a chap as he is. Well, what's to be done now?" "Let's go on the top again and see it go," cried Big. "Oh, no," I said, "it wouldn't be safe till the powder's gone off." "You mean it wouldn't have been safe if I'd done what you wanted," cried Bob triumphantly.
How long would it take to get everything ready for action?" Maverick's eyes gleamed; here evidently was to be a piece of work such as he enjoyed! "The powder's all there," he replied, "all there, jest in the right places, an' all there is ter do is ter lay the trains 'round there an' fix a few fuses; 'twouldn't take more'n half an hour, or sech a matter."
Drake was buried off Puerto Bello, where legend has it his spirit still awaits England's call "Take my drum to England, hang et by the shore, Strike et when your powder's running low. If the Dons sight Devon, I'll leave the port of Heaven, An' drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago."
"Neither do I. Powder's bad, anyhow. We must guess at it. Here, quick, lend me a knife." He slashed open one of the lower sacks in the bulkhead by the door, stuffed in some kind of twisted cord, and, edging away, sat for an instant with his knife-blade gleaming in the ruddy twilight. "How long, Rudie, how long?" He smothered a groan. "Too long, or too short, spoils everything. Oh, well here goes."
"I came to visit an ice cream parlor and go to a movie," chuckled Joy. But Kit did not deign to answer the man. She dug her spurs into Powder's sides and he leaped past the rider and raced toward the town. "That fellow looks as if he had been taking advantage of someone. Wasn't he feeling good? On top of the world!
Well, I've got you now where you can't peek much," came the gruff answer. "Won't you leave the candle?" asked Rose. "I guess not," he answered with a little laugh, and pointed toward the keg. "Look at that keg! Well, it's full of powder, and powder's too sca'se an article these days to leave a candle in the same room with it." "But we can't see to eat," pleaded Anne.
Prim's hand touched her shoulder at this instant, for delicious notes of two voices stole upon the air from the hiding place of Mrs. Powder's troup. The lady's voice they had heard before; it was one of great power and training, and it came now mingling with a sweet full bass voice. There was no more talking until the music ended. It was a fine bit from a German opera.
They beat it again when Nelson broke the sea power of Napoleon at Trafalgar. "Here's what an English writer supposes Drake to have said when he was dying: 'Take my drum to England, hang it by the shore, Strike it when your powder's running low; If the Dons sight Devon, I'll quit the port of heaven And drum them up the Channel, as we drummed them long ago."
Rollo, more than I can say; and now you are here I hardly know how to tell why. 'That makes me wish very much you would find out. 'Phoebe will have it she is sick, said the housekeeper, pondering, 'and sometimes I think so myself. I know she goes out too much. And stays up too late. Why, the last time she came from Governor Powder's I was frightened half to death. 'That was two weeks ago?
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