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Updated: May 11, 2025
Accordingly, one day having obtained shore leave, I purchased a new rig-out, and leaving my sea-going togs with the Jewish shopman, I made tracks, as the saying goes, into the Bush with all speed. Happen what might, I was resolved that Captain Fairweather should not set eyes on George Fairfax again. From that time onward my career was a strange one. I became a veritable Jack-of-all-Trades.
'You'll not be able to buy anything to-night, Dick said, and Kate answered: 'Leslie said she'd lend me a nightgown. 'And to-morrow you'll buy yourself a complete rig-out, and he gave her five-and-twenty pounds and told her to pal with Leslie, that she was the best of the lot.
"I seem to have made a prompt sensation without trying to do so," returned Farr, meekly. "I have been in your city less than fifteen minutes, sir!" "You're a traveling labor-agitator, aren't you?" "No, sir." "But I just saw you circulating among those men. Your rig-out shows your character!" "You mean these garments I wear?" "Certainly! A frock-coat helps out your pose before an ignorant public."
"Vell, I didn't go because of bein' axed to go, you may be sure o' that, but my little dosser, Tim Lumpy, you remember 'im? The cove wi' the nose like a button, an' no body to speak of all legs an' arms, like a 'uman win'-mill; vell, you must know they've nabbed 'im, an' given 'im a rig-out o' noo slops, an' they're goin' to send 'im to Canada.
Then, addressing poor "Downy" he cried out curtly, "Turn out your pockets!" The ex-gravedigger sadly produced four sovereigns. "Is that all the money you've got?" "Yes, sir," replied "Downy," in a still more sepulchral tone. "Every ha'penny." "Then, pay this woman here, for you must have a rig-out for the voyage," said the lieutenant.
So, at last not being able to go ashore to buy a stock of clothes on receiving his advance pay, the purser at that time not supplying the men, as is the custom nowadays, with what they required, the morose gentleman was obliged to have recourse to Poll Nash, one of the bumboat women, who had brought off a lot of "slop" clothing for those requiring a rig-out, and was selling the same on her own terms to all comers as quickly as she could dispose of her stock.
"Never mind, I must make the most of it while it lasts. I'm afraid I shan't have many more opportunities of 'keeping company' with a red-coat." "How d'you mean?" he asked, with an uneasy, downward glance at his uniform. "My time isn't up for nearly three years; and I know I ought not to come here in this rig-out." "Don't talk nonsense," she answered.
I honestly thought I looked pretty, but Jack surveyed me with decided disapprobation. "What have you done to yourself? You don't look like the same girl. I'd never know you in that rig-out, with all those flippery-trippery curls all over your head. Why don't you comb your hair straight back, and let it hang in a braided tail, like you used to?" This didn't suit me at all.
A chill wind came from the sea and the surf at the foot of the bluff moaned and splashed and sighed. Thankful sighed also. "What's the matter?" asked Winnie S. "Oh, nothin' much. I wish I was a prophet, that's all. I'd like to be able to look ahead a year." Winnie S. whistled. "Judas priest!" he said. "So'd I. But if I'd see myself drivin' this everlastin' rig-out I'd wished I hadn't looked.
"Mustn't miss my station," and he was settling himself down to sleep again, when, as he glanced at his fellow-traveller, he caught sight of the Skipper's rig-out. "What cheer, messm't!" he cried boisterously. "Whither bound?" and his features expanded into a broad grin. "Portsmouth," said the Skipper. "Right you are, messm't. So'm I. What ship? 'Flash, eh! My stars! You aren't a middy, are yer?"
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