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Pretty little Mrs Machowl has prepared it, and is now assisting at the partaking of it. Young Master Teddy Machowl is similarly engaged on his father's knee. The child has grown appallingly during its father's absence! Ram-stam and Chok-foo are in waiting gazing at each other with the affection of Chinese lovers re-united.
And of all the pretty, crooked, tangled things that He has made, women are the prettiest, the crookedest and the most distractingly tangled. Which is perhaps why they are so everlastingly interesting, and why we blundering, ram-stam, homely favored men love them so. But the best entertainment must at long and last come to an end.
Of course his distracted wife hauled in on the life-line with all her might, and Chok-foo and Ram-stam, forsaking the pump, lent their aid and soon hauled the luckless diver into the boat, when his first act was to deal the Chinamen a cuff each that sent one into the stern-sheets on his nose, and the other into the bow on his back.
A signal-pull now came for "Less air," but Molly had taken up an idea, and it could not be dislodged. She thought it must be "More air" that was wanted. "Pump away, boys pump," she cried, in rapidly increasing alarm. Chok-foo and Ram-stam obeyed. The signal was repeated somewhat impatiently. "Pump away, boys; for dear life pump," cried the little woman in desperate anxiety.
"Come boys, give way. The morning's gittin' on, an' we must set to work as soon as ever we can. Time an' tide, you know, etcetera." Rooney, Maxwell, Chok-foo, and Ram-stam, who were rowing, bent to their work with a will, but the heavy boat did not respond heartily, being weighted with a large amount of diving gear.
She but to have come in ram-stam an' stern forrit; for the bows of her are aften under, and the back-side of her is clear at hie-water o' neaps. But, man! the dunt that she cam doon wi' when she struck! Lord save us a'! but it's an unco life to be a sailor a cauld, wanchancy life.
Here little Mrs Machowl was on her knees before an air-pump, oiling and rubbing up its parts. Ram-stam, with clasped hands, head a little on one side, and a gentle smile of approbation on his lips, admired the progress of the operation.
"Ho!" exclaimed Ram-stam, looking up from the weapon he was engaged on with an amused expression, "you know noting of pirits of dem seas. Hi! Hi! Wait." Ram-stam said this with the air of one who held the decided opinion that when he had waited Joe would have his views enlarged. "What, are they such bold fellows?" "Ho yis, vely muchee bold. Ca'es for noting. 'Flaid of noting.
After looking for some time inquiringly at the spot where he had disappeared, most of the Malays resumed their various duties about the vessel, though a few remained a little to regard Ram-stam with much interest, as being one who, in a measure, held the life of a fellow-being in his hands. Suddenly a loud hissing noise was heard over the side.
"You went to this trader's camp and ruined his goods?" "Yes." "Why?" The slim girl faced her judge steadily with eyes full of apprehension. "Fergus," she said in a low voice, "and my people." "What aboot them?" "These traders break the law. They sell liquor to Fergus and to " "Gin that's true, is it your business to ram-stam in an' destroy ither folks' property?
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