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Updated: June 4, 2025
"We can't dog him now, and anyhow it isn't Pettigrew's pheasants that Jack's after: he's gone past the woods. What a bone-shaker he's captured. Hear the spokes rattlin'." "Not so quick, Grimmy. He's wheeling into that little Westcote inn. We'll run him down now." The rider had indeed dismounted nearly a quarter mile ahead, and instantly the Amorians were stringing down the road again.
Yes no damn me it must be Ralph Rattlin it bean't, sure and here on his beam ends, a shot in his hull, and one of his spars shattered. I'd sooner have had my grog watered all my life than this should have fallen out." "You have not had your grog watered this evening, Pigtop," said I, rising, assisted by himself and his comrades. "I don't feel much hurt, after all." "True, true, shipmate.
Captain Reud looks fierce and forbidding, and Mr Farmer, for his generally impassible features, really quite savage. I come forward shudderingly and look down. The wandering and restless eyes of the frightened young man meet, in an instant, what, most probably, they are seeking my own. "Ralph Rattlin, speak for me to the captain."
"Why, Master Rattlin," said the lady, "Mr uses you worse than the sun that did but scorch but he roasts you." "No wonder, madam, as he considers me raw," replied I. Openly admired abroad, and secretly cherished by a love, the more intense because concealed, at home, the course of my days was as happy as the improvement in the various branches of my education was rapid.
There's people that zee things, tu, an' others that don't never zee nothin'. Now, our Joe yu might putt anything under'is eyes an e'd never zee it; and them other boys, tu, they'm rattlin' fellers. But yu take an' putt our Megan where there's suthin', she'll zee it, an' more tu, or I'm mistaken." "She's sensitive, that's why." "What's that?" "I mean, she feels everything." "Ah!
"Whizzer'll make a rattlin' good saddle horse some day, when he's broke gentle," argued the Old Man. "Huh! I don't envy Chip the job uh breakin' him, though," grunted Slim, as he went out of the door. After breakfast the Little Doctor visited Silver and fed him his customary ration of lump sugar, helped the Countess tidy the house, and then found herself at a loss for something to do.
Mr Rattlin has charge of the forecastle he descries a vessel ahead he takes upon himself to order the helm hard a-port, and we run over and sink her accordingly. He is responsible, clearly." "Clearly," was the answering echo from all the rejectors of responsibility. "Mr Rattlin, I am sorry for you.
Before he spoke to me, he had looked attentively at several other midshipmen, some belonging to my own ship, others, young gentlemen who were on shore on dockyard duty. At length, after a scrutiny sufficient to make me rather angry, he took off his hat very respectfully, and said: "Have I the honour of speaking to Mr Ralph Rattlin?" "You have: well, my man?"
He had a smile like a crack in a plate. "'Say, gents, he says, 'have you made your bets yet? I've got a dead straight line on the handicap, says he, 'and I'll put you next for a one spot. It's a sure t'ing at fifteen to three. What do you say? "I didn't say nuthin'; but that fool dream was rattlin' round in Jonadab's skull like a bean in a blowgun, and he sees a chance for a shot.
"Well, you know it was in those happy days that I had first the pleasure of forming an acquaintance with the inimitable Ralph Rattlin." "But why Rattlin? my name must be either Daventry or Rathelin."
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