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Updated: June 10, 2025
Franklin, of whom I spoke just now, was the first to suggest that bars of steel would draw lightning out of a cloud surcharged with electricity." "What becomes of it when it is caught?" "Keeping in view its partiality for bell-pulls, a wire is attached to the rod down which the unconscious fluid glides." "Like a powder-monkey from the main-top."
One took off my hat rim clean to my brow; another razed the Lieutenant's left boot, by slicing off the heel; a third shot killed my powder-monkey without touching him." "How, Jack?" "It whizzed the poor babe dead. He was seated on a cheese of wads at the time, and after the dust of the pow-dered bulwarks had blown away, I noticed he yet sat still, his eyes wide open.
There was no mistaking that falcon-face. It was the Gentleman. "Who's there?" peering suspiciously. "Boy Hoad, powder-monkey o the Dreadnought." "Is that the Dreadnought?" sharply. "Dreadnought, forty-four. Oi'm drownin, sir. Take us in." His hand was on the boat's gunwale. "What the deuce you doing here?" "Desartin, sir. They was for floggin me at sun-up." "What for?" "For for fun." "For what?"
"Then you must be a powder-monkey with me; you can hand powder up, if you can do nothing else." "I can do more," replied Willy, proudly; "I can roll shells overboard." "Ay, ay, so you can: I forgot that. I suppose I must put you on the quarter-deck, and make an officer of you, as Captain M intended to do." "I mean to stand by you when we fight," said Willy, taking McElvina's hand.
Fairford thanked him, and accepted his offer of tea. Nanty Ewart was soon heard calling about, 'Break open yon chest take out your capful, you bastard of a powder-monkey; we may want it again. No sugar? all used up for grog, say you? knock another loaf to pieces, can't ye? and get the kettle boiling, ye hell's baby, in no time at all!
The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh, and the creature of his party: but there is something in the success of grand talent which enlists an universal sympathy.
But no such thing. When the captain in command at the station hails on board, every man and boy of the crew, from the powder-monkey to the first-lieutenant, are mustered in pipe-clay on the quarter-deck, and there, with the ship's commission in his hand, every one must report himself as he calls over the names. "Then the captain will tell the simple truth."
He was rated as captain of the maintop and I as ship's boy, having to do duty as powder-monkey. I quickly found myself at home, and those who didn't know that I had been to sea before, wondered how well I knew my way everywhere about the decks and aloft.
They, of course, wanted shirts, socks, caps, and shoes, swords and belts, all of which, to their surprise, he had in stock indeed, he showed, like most of his countrymen, that he had a keen eye for business, and would undertake to fit out a ship's company, from an admiral down to a powder-monkey.
'My God, Hardin! he screams 'Ger off o my ship! Ger off o my ship! "'Pardon, my lord, says I. 'I've done my dooty as a man, though I may have exceeded it as a sailor! "He called me a blanky pit boy. "'A pit boy I was, my lord, says I, 'and not ashamed on it; and powder-monkey to Hawke afoor your lordship was born. For nigh on fifty years I've touched the King's pay, and ate the King's salt.
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