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"Indeed!" said Cuffe, ironically; "I do not wonder that her captain's in a scrape." "Scrape, sir! The Folly is nothing but a scrape. I've tried my hand at keeping her reck'nin'." "You!"
An' you think I knows nothin'. Well, p'r'aps I don't know much, but you should remember, lad, that an old salt wi' a compass in his wes'kit-pocket is not the man to lose his reck'nin'. I've got one here as'll put us all right on that score, for I was careful to take my bearin's when we set sail, an' I've been keepin' an eye on our course all the way. Make your mind easy, my boy."
"Yes, sir, I; Ithuel Bolt, that's my name at hum' or abroad, and I've tried to keep the Folly's reck'nin', with all the advantage of thermometer, and lead-lines, and logarithms, and such necessaries, you know, Captain Cuffe; and I never yet could place her within a hundred miles of the spot where she was actually seen to be."
Almost tongue-tied, therefore, now by his former silence on the subject, he temporised with the difficulty, determined not to be cornered if he could help it. "'Deed an' I mad' it e'en the same as the deed reck'nin' cam' to, Cap'en, a wee bit to the westwar' o' twenty-seven, and close to the leen."
I simply referred to it as a proof of your admirable culinary powers." "Yon's beeg words. What 'll ye hev te ate?" "A fish like that upon your sign-post, madam, or at least the upper half of him; and three dozen oysters just out of the sea, swimming in their own juice, with lovely melted butter." "Young mon, hast tha gotten t' brass? Them 'at ates offens forgets t' reck'nin'."
He let his hand rest quite unconsciously on the leathern holster of his dragoon revolver, yet with a strong suggestion to me of his ability "to make the riffle" if he wanted to, and added: "But just now I was reck'nin' on taking a little pasear with you."
"Ye'll never be able to take yer watch at the diamond pit to-night, Dad," she said; "and I've been reck'nin' you might set the squaw there instead. I can show her what to do." But to Flip's momentary discomfiture, her father promptly objected. "Mebbee I've got suthin' else for her to do.
"Ye'll never be able to take yer watch at the diamond pit to-night, Dad," she said; "and I've been reck'nin' you might set the squaw there instead. I can show her what to do." But to Flip's momentary discomfiture, her father promptly objected. "Mebbe I've got suthin' else for her to do.
"Wore through the lashing," said Tom, who had been examining the place where the big hooked steel anchor was usually tied. "We ought to have seen to it before we started out," said Jack. "We haven't had it loose since that time we anchored above the Brazilian forest." The farmer's angry voice hailed them from below. "Hey there! Don't yew move a foot till we've had a reck'nin'."
"I've had consid'able many arguments with you, Hiram, over this affair, first and last, and just at present reck'nin' I'm luggin' about all the canvas my feelin's will stand. Now I won't wear that damnation stove-funnel hat; I won't ride in any baroosh; I won't make speeches; I won't set up on any platform.
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