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"I knows," Jonas pursued, doggedly, though it went against the grain, "that last week he wrecked the Jessie Dodd on the Ragged Edge at Wayfarer's Tickle. I knows that she was insured for her value and fifteen hundred quintal o' Labrador fish. I knows that they wasn't a fish aboard. I knows that every fish is safe stowed in Jagger's stores. I knows that the schooner lies near afloat at high tide.
"But but I said that that you did it a-purpose," stammered Matt. "Well, an' didn't I say that you said that I said you did it a-purpose?" A yell of delight followed this reply, in which, however, Matt did not join. Like his father, Matt Quintal was short in the temper at least, short for a Pitcairn boy. He suddenly gave Dan McCoy a dab on the nose with his fist.
My! what a cropper you must have come down when you got that dab on your proboscis!" "Stop your howlin'," shouted Quintal to the musicians, in order to vent some of the spleen which his friend's remark had stirred up.
"Get out o' that, you little nigger!" exclaimed Quintal, angrily, giving the child a push with his foot which sent her rolling to the side of the ship, where her head came in contact with an iron bolt. Sally opened her mouth, shut her eyes, and howled. Quintal had probably not intended to hurt the child, but he expressed no regret.
There was little furniture in the room, but what there was they smashed in pieces. Quintal flung McCoy on the table, and jumping on the top of him, broke it down. The other managed to get on his legs again, clutched Quintal by the throat, and thrust him backward with such violence that he went crashing against the little window-shutters, split them up, and drove them out.
Come, fill up your cups, lads, and drink to Thursday October Christian!" With enthusiasm and a shout of laughter, the toast was pledged in cocoa-nut milk, and once again Christian's hand was shaken by his comrades all round. It was followed ere long by quite a crop of babies. In a few months more a Matthew Quintal was added to the roll.
By herself and loaded only with ballast, the Nettie was a better sailor in a beating game, for she was older and heavier than the Charming Lass. But now she had but a thousand quintal of fish compared to the sixteen hundred of her rival. This difference gave the Lass much needed stability without which she could never have hoped to win from the Burns schooner.
Late that afternoon Pete Ellinwood swung the last basket of the catch to the scales and Code completed his tally. "Sixteen hundred and seventy quintal," he announced, "and forty-three pounds. At a hundred pounds a quintal that makes 167,078 pounds, and at three cents a pound totals to $5,012.34. Not bad for a two months' cruise, but my soul and body, Bill Boughton, how the fish did run!"
He ran down the path by which he had just come, and passed Quintal on the way. "Hallo, Bill! you're pretty bad to-night," said his comrade, looking after him. He then followed at a smart run, as if some new idea had suddenly occurred to him. Two of the women met McCoy further down, but as if to evade them, he darted away to the right along the track leading to the eastward cliffs.
Orders of the Committee of Public Safety, Pluviose 23, referring to the law of Brumaire 25, forbidding the extraction of more than fifteen pounds of bran from a quintal of flour. Order directing the removal of bolters from bakeries and mills; he who keeps or conceals these on his property "shall be treated as 'suspect' and put under arrest until peace is declared." Berryat Saint Prix, 357, 362.
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