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The fact was, that the deck being composed of bamboos, as already described, one of the pirates below had passed his creese through the spaces between them into Prose's body, when he came down on deck in a sitting posture, and had repeated the blow when he failed to recover his feet after the first wound.
"I believe that they are Mr Prose's, sir, though I am not sure," answered Jerry, who knew very well that they were not, but wished that Prose should be sent for. "Quarter-master, tell Mr Prose to come up to me directly." Jerry immediately ran down to the berth. "Well, now, Jerry, this is too bad, I do declare. Come, take it off again, that's a good fellow."
It's like an ox, an't it?" "It's very like a whale," replied Courtenay. At this moment one of the herd, startled at the near approach of the cavalcade, rose from the stagnant pool, where he had been lying, and presented his immense carcass, covered with mud, to Prose's wondering eyes. "Lord, Molly, what a fish!" exclaimed Courtenay, with affected surprise, alluding to an old standing naval joke.
"Done; now let's see recollect the staple must go into the hole, or you lose," said Jerry, fixing the collar round Prose's neck, and pretending that the staple was not into the hole of the collar until he had inserted the padlock, turned and taken out the key. "Well, I do declare I've lost, Prose.
"I do declare," cried Jerry, imitating Prose's drawl, "that he has squeezed a pun out of you." "Am not I king?" resumed Bruce, seizing Jerry, who had advanced within reach, to laugh at Prose. "I feel that you ought to be," replied Jerry: "and I don't doubt your lineal descent: for you have all the dispositions of the race from which you claim descent.
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