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Some young men on the boat were so angry that they caught up a rope's end, and gave the dancing masters a lashing, and then threw them into the water and made them swim to the island.
Immediately, he fell down on the deck, calling out "Don't flog me, Captain T ; don't flog me!" and the captain, angry with him, and disgusted with his cowardice, gave him a few blows over the back with a rope's end and sent him forward. He was not much hurt, but a good deal frightened, and made up his mind to run away that very night.
"You can't fall, even if you slip over, for the rope's strong enough to hold you; but you may get a bad jerk when you bring up suddenly if you fall after I release your foot." "I'm ready," said the man. Dave looked at the two stones between which the man's foot was wedged.
A sailor always seizes a rope's end, but this is sliced short off with the cold steel. This won't do at all for the men," he added. "Just stand by till I fix it up more natural." "Any guess what it all means?" I asked. "Well, it means one thing," said he. "It means Trent was a liar. I guess the story of the Flying Scud was a sight more picturesque than he gave out."
This time he did not so much as scream. He hung there, dangling at the rope's end, his mouth all bloody, his face ghastly in its glistening pallor, and of his eyes naught showing save the whites. He hung there, and moaned piteously and incessantly. Martin glanced questioningly at Gian Maria, and his eyes very plainly inquired whether they had not better cease. But Gian Maria paid no heed to him.
If the men addressed him as Mr Yallop, he invariably exclaimed, "Mr Fletcher Yallop is my name, remember, my lad; and I'll beg you always to denominate me by my proper appellation, or a rope's end and your back will scrape acquaintance with each other." He explained his reasons to me in confidence one day.
"Why can't you let a poor fellow be?" "Be! What for?" shouted Bigley to my astonishment, for I could not have believed him guilty of such brutality. "Yes, I'll let you be. I'll make you work, that's what I'll do. I wish I'd a rope's end here." "It's too bad, it's too cruel, Big," I cried passionately. "How can you behave so brutally to the poor fellow!"
Dick, who with his two assistants had been knocked down and nearly overboard by the rush, quickly scrambled to his feet and dropped overboard every rope's end he could lay his hands upon, and by this means contrived to rescue some twenty of the now thoroughly sobered and frightened men; but, of course, this involved a most lamentable delay and loss of time; and meanwhile it became apparent to all that the ship was now fast settling in the water.
One of your park-keepers, I warrant, that can never forget they have borne C. R. upon their badges and bugle-horns, even as a dog bears his owner's name on his collar a pretty emblem for Christian men! But the brute beast hath the better of him, the brute weareth his own coat, and the caitiff thrall wears his master's. I have seen such a wag make a rope's end wag ere now.
"Where is the balloon, and what do you mean by pulling Mun Bun up in the basket that way?" she asked. "Mun Bun's in the balloon!" cried Russ. "We got him up, but we can't get him down," added Laddie. "The rope's stuck." And that is just what had happened. I think you can guess the kind of game Russ and Laddie had been playing when the accident happened?
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