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Gibney could not forebear a grin as he saw the captain's plan, and instantly he resolved to further it, if for no other reason than to humiliate and infuriate Scraggs. "The tow will cost you five thousand, Captain," Scraggs began pompously. "Me an' McGuffey'll sail you in for four," Gibney declared. "Three thousand," snarled Scraggs. "Sailin's cheap as dirt at two thousand.
The old Board would ne'er ha' done it. They trusted me. But the new Board were all for reorganisation. Young Steiner Steiner's son the Jew, was at the bottom of it, an' they did not think it worth their while to send me word. The first I knew an' I was Chief Engineer was the notice of the line's winter sailin's, and the Breslau timed for sixteen days between port an' port! Sixteen days, man!
Without another word the sausage legs made off with the plum-duff head, which had no sooner got outside the door than it began to let out in dislocated fragments, from a mouth that gradually expanded until it reached from ear to ear, "Away, away! we'll go a-fishin', a-fishin', a-fishin'; away, away! we'll go a-sailin', a-sailin', a-sailin'; away, away! we'll all be jolly, jolly, jolly, we'll all be jolly"; and so on until the sausage legs had carried the plum-duff head and the refrain together so far down among the trees, towards the water, that all the other "jollys" and the sailin's and the "fishin's," and the rest of it, were blown clean away by the wind.
"Give him a chance to know a few leadin' principles. Sailin's an art, Harvey, as I'd show you if I had ye in the fore-top o' the " "I know ut. Ye'd talk him dead an' cowld. Silince, Tom Platt! Now, after all I've said, how'd you reef the foresail, Harve? Take your time answerin'." "Haul that in," said Harvey, pointing to leeward. "Fwhat? The North Atlantuc?" "No, the boom.
And perhaps for two or three yards they would manage to walk with the rope ere they came to a halt like stalled horses on a hill. And yet, did either of the mates spring in and add his strength, they were able to move right along the deck without stopping. Either of the mates, old men that they were, was muscularly worth half-a-dozen of the wretched creatures. "This is what sailin's come to," Mr.
"It don't cost you nothin' to have us read it," said Cap'n Joab easily. "The news is all here arter we git through." "Uh-huh! I s'pose so. I'd ought to thank ye, I don't dispute, for keepin' the paper from feelin' lonesome. "I dunno why Abe takes it, anyway, 'cept to foller the sailin's and arrivals at the port o' Boston 'nless he finds more time to read than ever I do.
We've got to fix our business. Here are the sailin's, on the first page of the Times. There's a Booth boat for Para next Wednesday week, and if the Professor and you can work it, I think we should take it what? Very good, I'll fix it with him. What about your outfit?" "My paper will see to that." "Can you shoot?" "About average Territorial standard." "Good Lord! as bad as that?
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