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Updated: June 11, 2025
That the sailor-boys are in such demand for merchant ships, that whereas, before they were trained, 10l. premium used to be given with each boy too often to some greedy brute of a drunken skipper, who disappeared before the term of apprenticeship was out, if the ill-used boy didn't captains of the best character now take these boys more than willingly, with no premium at all?
I say, you Tregellin fellows, wake up!" it was the voice we had heard before "wake up and let us in?" it sounded as if he turned to his companions then, and laughed and muttered something "here's some decent sailor-boys as wants a drop and a bite, so wake up quick, boys and niggers! let us in, I say, or we'll break open the doors, and break your bones into the bargain."
It is a rough but kindly instructor. That is why our little sailor-boys, though their hearts are childlike still, have the spirit of gallant veterans. Elbows on the parapet of the sea-wall, they gaze out into the offing. It is more than the blue line marking the faint division between sea and sky that they see.
We saw lots of flying-fish also; and they, when we had the chance of catching the few that came aboard, were even better fare for hungry sailor-boys of an evening than the dolphins and bonetta.
There was a small window at his back, and he twisted himself round, and nodded to his mother and grandmother inside the van. He could not hear what they answered, for the sailor-boys were singing at the top of their voices: "I will sing you One, O! What is your One, O? Number One sits all alone, and ever more shall be-e so." "They're home 'pon leave," said Joby.
The steamer in which I crossed the harbour twice daily, passed quite close to the 'Impregnable, and thus gave me ample opportunity to scan her vast dimensions, and to gaze in wonder at her tall masts. But best of all was to see the sailor-boys on the forecastle, in the rigging, and manning the boats which were fastened to her lower booms.
While Joby baited his horses, the sailor-boys helped to lift out the invalid and trans-ship the luggage; after which they climbed on the roof again, and were jogged away northward in the dusk, waving their caps and singing. The most remarkable thing about the inn was its signboard.
Great beams were broken in twain, the heaviest guns were dismounted, and men were hurled fifty feet into the air. In five minutes the ship had gone to the bottom, and boats from other vessels were picking up the crew. The launch escaped in the excitement. The Union sailor-boys did not let the Confederates outdo them in dash and pluck.
My brother Stukely is woe enough to North Devon for this generation." "Poor braggadocio!" said Mr. Leigh; "and yet not altogether that too, for he can fight at least." "So can every mastiff and boar, much more an Englishman. And now come hither to me, my adventurous godson, and don't look in such doleful dumps. I hear you have broken all the sailor-boys' heads already."
A large open boat follows, mounted on a car; it is filled with sailor-boys in blue and white. This boat is a model of the 'Cerberus, the turret-ship that Mr. Reed is building in England for the defence of Port Phillip. A genuine old salt, with long white hair, plays the part of admiral.
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