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Updated: June 16, 2025
Abel went back to the round-house, where George was struggling to fix the candlestick securely in the wall. "Cuss the thing!" he exclaimed, whilst the skin of his face took a mottled hue that was the nearest approach he ever made to a blush. "The tallow've been a dropping, Abel, my boy. I think 'twas the wind when you opened the door, maybe. And I've been a trying to fix un more firmly.
Others having broken the stems of their pipes almost short off at the bowl, were vigorously puffing tobacco-smoke, so that it constantly filled their olfactories. Stubb was struck by a shower of outcries and anathemas proceeding from the Captain's round-house abaft; and looking in that direction saw a fiery face thrust from behind the door, which was held ajar from within.
Suddenly the artist seized a sketch that was lying near, and, turning it over, began one on the other side, questioning Jan as he drew. "What do old country wives dress in down yonder? What did you wear in the mill? Where does the light come from in a round-house," etc. Presently he flung it to Jan, and, in answer to the boy's cry of admiration, growled, "Ay, ay.
In this guise we were dragged to the round-house, where we spent the night amidst bullies, thieves, and orange wenches, to whom I am proud to say that both neighbour Foster and myself spoke some words of joy and comfort.
Stewart and Heywood, master's mate and midshipman, who were very young the latter was fifteen at the time of the mutiny declared to the captain of the Pandora that they had been detained on the Bounty against their wishes; but Captain Edwards believed nothing, listened to no defence. He built a round-house on the quarter deck, and heavily ironing his prisoners locked them up in this.
The first thing he saw at the top in one lurid instant was the entire Jago family gathered by their garden gate six of them and all bareheaded under the deluge. The next flash revealed why they were there. Against the round-house opposite a ladder rested, and above it on the steep roof clung a man his father.
Giles's round-house on my own responsibility." "Is this your notable scheme!" asked the knight, scornfully. "Once there," proceeded Wild, without noticing the interruption, "he's as good as in his grave. The constable, Sharples, is in my pay. I can remove the prisoner at any hour of the night I think fit: and I will remove him.
For the moment he fancied that he would jerk bodily from off his underpinning. "That must be the emergency-stop that Poney guyed me about," he gasped, as soon as he could think. "Hot-box-emergency-stop. They both hurt; but now I can talk back in the round-house." He was halted, all hissing hot, a few feet in the rear of what doctors would call a compound-comminuted car.
It was extremely difficult, in the early days, to find sober, reliable young men to man the few locomotives in America and run the trains. A large part of the population seemed to be floating, drifting west, west, always west. So when this stout-shouldered, strong-faced youth asked for work, the round-house foreman took him on gladly.
Perhaps it was sky-gazing, or the windmiller's trick of watching the clouds, or perhaps it was something else, from which Jan derived an erectness of carriage not common among the children about him, and a quaint way of carrying his little chin in the air as if he were listening to voices from a higher level than that of the round-house floor.
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