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"Luff now, all you can, quarter-master," cried the captain. "Send the men aft directly. My lads, there is no time for words I am going to club-haul the ship, for there is no room to wear. The only chance you have of safety is to be cool, watch my eye, and execute my orders with precision. Away to your stations for tacking ship. Hands by the best bower anchor.
Those departments had always considered themselves independent of the Commander in the field; in fact, in the beginning of the war the officers of Commissary Quarter-Master and Ordnance Departments declined to obey the orders of the commanders they were serving under, except upon the order of their chief in Washington. General Grant settled this.
"Mr Prose, the first-lieutenant wants you, immediately," said the quarter-master, who had been despatched to him again. "Why, how can I go up with a dog's collar round my neck?" "I'm sorry, very sorry indeed, Prose. Never mind say it was me." "Say it was you! Why, so it was you. I'd better say that I'm sick." "Yes, that will do. What shall your complaint be? a lockjaw?
"Thank you very much for your information, Mr O'Farrel," replied O'Brien; "but the French have reported it before you. May I ask if you've any particular fancy to be made a target of, or if you think that His Majesty's brig Rattlesnake was sent here to be riddled for nothing at all? Starboard the helm, quarter-master."
But they were altogether too late; Somers, the quarter-master, who had seen what was afoot, and had gradually worked his way aft, sprang to the tiller, and jamming it over to port, sheered us very cleverly alongside the brig in the wake of her main-rigging, into which Ryan and I instantly leaped, followed by our twenty armed men.
"I don't care a d n if you have Old Joe himself inside. I command this train and you must get out." And get out the driver did, at the intimation of his passenger, who, to the surprise of the Quarter-Master, notwithstanding his assertion, turned out to be no less a personage than General Hooker himself.
He received the first rudiments of learning from a school-master who taught in the village where his parents resided, and who had served as a quarter-master during the war of the Succession in Spain; and from the romantic accounts which this man delighted to give of his travels, Goldsmith is supposed, by his sister, to have contracted his propensity for a wandering life.
"`I am happy to say that our casualties, owing to the extreme panic of the enemy, are very few. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient and humble servant, ALCIBIADES AJAX BOGGS. "`Wounded Very severely, James Anderson, quarter-master. Contusions John Peters, able seaman; James Morrison, marine; Thomas Snowball, captain's cook.
But God knows when they will begin to act again; but my business here was to see the inside of the stage and all the tiring-rooms and machines: and, indeed, it was a sight worthy seeing. One of them had been Quarter-master to the troop of horse in which Hart was serving as Lieutenant under Charles the First's standard.
The quarter-master moved off to the lee-gangway, and took the terrified animal in his arms; while, on its part, the poor creature seemed conscious of its approaching fate, and spread out its arms over the seaman's bare breast, as if to supplicate his mercy.
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