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But poor Ropey proved quite as clumsy among the crockery as in the rigging; and one day when the ship was pitching, having stumbled into the cabin with a wooden tureen of soup, he scalded the officers so that they didn't get over it in a week. Upon which, he was dismissed, and returned to the forecastle.
Jim Galway and Ropey Smith were walking side by side, keeping a measured step as they paced off a certain distance, while Bill Lang and Pete Leddy and Jack stood by. Leddy and Lang were watching the process inflexibly.
They were halted on the way by Pete Leddy, Ropey Smith, and a dozen followers, who appeared from a side street and stopped across Jack's path, every one of them with a certain slouching aggressiveness and staring hard at him. Pete and Ropey still kept faith with their pledge to Jack in the arroyo.
Leddy and Ropey Smith are hanging around all the time, and since the Doge went a whole lot of fellows that don't belong to the honey-bee class have been turning up and putting up their tents out on the outskirts, like they expected something to happen.
I am afraid that you will be late for breakfast." Apparently it came as a real inspiration to all at once that they might be, for they began to withdraw with a celerity that was amazingly spontaneous. Their heads disappeared below the skyline and only the actors were left. Pete and Ropey Bill Lang following walked away along the bed of the arroyo, instead of going over the bank.
"As I understand it, you have not been very useful citizens of Little Rivers. You can live under one condition that you leave town and never return armed. Half a minute to decide!" "I'll go!" said Pete. "I'll go!" said Ropey. "And keep your words?" "Yes!" they assented. But neither moved. The fact that Jack had not yet lowered his revolver made them cautious.
Yet her tongue had no urging word to offer. She waited in a supernatural and dreadful curiosity on Jack's decision. It was as if he were to answer one more question in explanation of the mystery of his nature. Could he deliberately shoot down an unarmed man? Was he that hard? "I am thinking just how to deal with you, Pete and Ropey," Jack proceeded.
"Yes," drawled Galway. "Then up with your gun quick! There! A bead on Ropey Smith!" Galway had the bead before Ropey could protest. "Give Ropey ten seconds to drop his gun or we will care for him at the same time as Pete'" Jack concluded. Ropey did not wait the ten seconds. He was over-prompt for the same reasons of temperament that made Pete Leddy prefer his own way of fighting.
Ropey went to the sign of the Pipe and Tankard; got fuddled; and over his fifth pot meditated suicide an intention carried out; for the next day he shipped as landsman aboard the Julia, South Seaman. The ex-baker would have fared far better, had it not been for his heart, which was soft and underdone. A kind word made a fool of him; and hence most of the scrapes he got into.
The Sugar is only put to soften and preserve the Juice, and too much will make the Wine ropey. This Season is proper for making Cherry Wine, the Kentish and Flemish Cherries being now full ripe, which are much the best for this purposes: This is a very pleasant strong Wine. To make Cherry Wine.
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