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"Begorra, an' I'm proud av that very same, Misther Gray-ham," he retorted, not one whit put out by my words, as I imagined he would be. "If other folks had as little to be ashamed av, it's a blissid worrld sure this'd be, an' we'd be all havin' our wings sproutin' an' sailin' aloft, loike the swate little cheroob, they says, looks arter poor Jack!"
"That's all right," replied the captain good-naturedly. "I haven't been worryin' about it. I've been dealin' with Tyke Grimshaw goin' on twenty year an 'he ain't never put me in a hole yet. I knew it would come along in plenty of time fur sailin'." "By the way, when do you sail, Captain?" asked Drew. "In a week, more or less. It all depends on how soon we get our cargo stowed."
An' say, Henry, won't they be s'prised to see us come proudly sailin' into port in our gran' big gall-yun, all loaded down with arms an' supplies an' treasures that we hev captured?" Sol spoke in a tone of deep content, and Henry replied in the same tone: "If they don't they've changed mightily since we left 'em." Both, in truth, were pervaded with satisfaction.
"The danger of the Sargasso threatens all sailin' ships in them seas. Steam vessels have a better chance; but many a craft that's turned up missin' has undoubtedly been swallowed by the Sargasso." Louise, who heard this discussion from the doorway of the store, could not fail to be impressed by it. Could the Curlew, with her father and Cap'n Abe aboard, have suffered such a fate?
Orion grunted pessimistically. Little in this world ever just suited Orion. "She's a hoodooed packet. I said it from the first," he muttered to Horry. "You know well enough what she was before they gave her a lick of paint and a new name. We'll all pay high yet for sailin' in her." "I wouldn't let Cap'n Tunis hear me say that 'nless I was seekin' a new berth," rejoined the old mariner.
"As long as there's water to sail in, you have just got to git on a line of longitude it doesn't matter what line, so long as there's water ahead of you and keep there; and so long as you steer due north, always takin' care not to switch off to the magnetic pole, of course you will keep there; and as all lines of longitude come to the same point at last, and as that's the point you are sailin' for, of course, if you can keep on that line of longitude as long as it lasts, it follows that you are bound to git there.
'Well, now, if you hadn't told me that I'd ha' jumped to the conclusion that a couple o' the mess boys had got fightin' an' wrecked the ship before you could separate 'em. Why in this an' that, he says, 'didn't you stick inside when any dumb fool could see the bar was breakin'? "'I wanted to keep the comp'ny's sailin' schedule unbroken, sir, I says, tryin' to be funny.
Finally the boat shows up; but instead of sailin' in graceful and prompt, she shuts off steam and lays to out in the middle of the river, about as lifeless as a storage warehouse afloat, while a dozen or so dinky tugs begin pushin' and pullin' to get her somewhere near the pier. Then folks start makin' wild guesses as to which is their friends.
I know him fo' a long time." "Have you sailed with him before?" "Yassir. I been along with Cap'n Jarrow an' Mr. Peth off an' on six years. Got a key fo' this hyar satchel?" "It isn't locked. Just press the lock to the left." "You mighty ca'less with yo' possessions," said Doc with a chuckle. "What sort of a man is Mr. Peth?" "Catch me with my stuff sailin' around loose.
"I've thought about that a good many times, too, when I've been sailin'," he went on "how them artists come up here summer after summer makin' picters, putty poor, most on 'em, and what's the use? I can see better ones settin' out there in my boat, any day. Not but that's better'n some," he added politely, indicating the half-finished canvas. The young man laughed. "Thanks to you," he said.
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