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Whenever these encounters took place, it appeared to be the object of the young men to treat the soldiers with as much incivility as possible. "Turn out, you lobster-backs!" one would say. "Crowd them off the side-walks!" another would cry. "A red-coat has no right in Boston streets." "Oh, you rebel rascals!" perhaps the soldiers would reply, glaring fiercely at the young men.
A sudden pool of scarlet seemed to spurt out of the deck and island him. Kit, his work accomplished for him, ran back to the wheel. "Reck'n that's the chap as got me," said old Ding-dong, nodding at the dead man with a certain grim friendliness. "A red-coat, d'ye see? Now what's the meanin o that? I never yeard tell of a privateer carrying regulars afoor."
"Shove 'em up!" came the crisp, peremptory order. Eight hands wavered skyward. "Is this a hold-up or what?" one of the teamsters wanted to know sulkily. "Call it whatever you like. You with the fur cap hitch up the mules to the second wagon. Don't make a mistake and try for a getaway. You'll be a dead smuggler." The man hesitated. Was this red-coat alone?
But no sooner did he behold the champion of independency sprawling on his back, with the divine's Geneva cloak fluttering in his hands, than the magistrate rushed forward, exclaiming that such insolence was not to be endured, and ordered his constables to seize the prostrate champion, proclaiming, in the magnanimity of wrath, "I will commit every red-coat of them all I will commit him were he Noll Cromwell himself!"
Still, I was not nearly so bad as the other two, being decidedly strong and vigorous for my age, and I determined that the skipper should be gratified if it lay in my power; so I scrambled to his side and held out my hand to him shouting, "Let me give you a tow, sir; and we'll be in before the red-coat yet."
"'That ain't much account against a boat-hook, said one of the men, as he took one with a sharp spike from beneath the gunwale. "'Lay that down, you beggar! cried the little red-coat; and he pulled out of each side-pocket a four-barreled pistol, for there were no revolvers in them days, and the man laid down the boat-hook as quick as a flash.
Through no merit of my own it was my good fortune to be in a measure admitted to their friendship frankly by Mulvaney from the beginning, sullenly and with reluctance by Learoyd, and suspiciously by Ortheris, who held to it that no man not in the Army could fraternize with a red-coat. "Like to like," said he. "I'm a bloomin' sodger he's a bloomin' civilian. 'Tain't natural that's all."
But at this moment the tender scene was abruptly ended by the shrill, strident tones of La Zandunga's voice. "So I have caught you, shameless girl, philandering again with this rascally red-coat. May he die in a dog-kennel! Here, in my very house! But, I promise you, it is for the last time. Hola! Benito!
Sleep with it open, Don't sit at windows after lamps are lit not without curtains all down. Play all your cards close." The red-coat spoke casually, slapping his boot with a small riding-switch. He was smiling. None the less Tom knew he was in dead earnest. "Sounds like good advice. I'll take it," the trader said easily. "Anything more on your chest?" "Why, yes. Where did Whaley go to-day?
She could only repeat her demand, in a cry that reached its ictus in a sob. "If you're dreamin' about that red-coat spy hopin' he'll marry you after he's played fast and loose with you why, forget such foolishness. I know his kind. When he's had his fling, he'll go back to his own people and settle down. He's lookin' for a woman, not a wife."
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