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I look on Captain Dave as being pretty nigh the same as myself, seeing as I have been with him man and boy for over thirty years, and I feel what you have done for him just as if you had done it for me. I am only a rough sailor-man, and I don't know how to put it in words, but I feel just full up with a cargo of thankfulness."
"But, father," said Dorothea, "the Ancient Mariner was not a real person. He was only a character!" "Are you quite sure," said I, "that a character isn't a real person? At all events, it was here that Coleridge, walking from Nether Stowey to Dulverton, saw the old sailor-man. And since Coleridge saw him, I reckon he lived, and still lives. Are we ever going to forget what he has told us?
There was a hurried murmur of approval, but curiosity for what was coming next prevented an articulate reply. "Well," continued Trent, making bread pills and looking hard at the middle of the table, "I'm glad of course to be able to give you a passage to 'Frisco; one sailor-man should help another, that's my motto. But when you want a thing in this world, you generally always have to pay for it."
If they were all bound for one place in a body, I don't say so; but they're all going separate to Hull, to Sweden, to the Clyde, to the Thames. Well, at each place, what is it? Nothing new. Only one sailor-man missing: got drunk, or got drowned, or got left the proper sailor's end." Something bitter in the thought and in the speaker's tones struck me hard. "Here is one that has got left!"
It seemed like a long ride to her, yet in reality the Ork covered the distance in a wonderfully brief period of time and soon Trot stood safely beside Cap'n Bill on the level floor of a big arched tunnel. The sailor-man was very glad to greet his little comrade again and both were grateful to the Ork for his assistance.
Here he stooped, and wrenching the silver pipe from Smiling Sam's fat throat stared from one shuffling rogue to another: "Step forward, Abner," says he at last, "Come, you'll do you're a prime sailor-man, you're my bo'sun henceforth." But now Smiling Sam awaking from his swoon moaned feebly and sat up: "Not the hook, Cap'n!" he wailed, "O not that " "No, Smiler, no, I keep it for better men.
This sailor-man had just such a long grey beard as the Grand Vizier himself. "How dost thou come to know me?" inquired Damad Ibrahim of the old man. "Why we fought together, sir, beneath Belgrade, when both of us were young fellows together." "What is thy name? "Manoli." "I remember thee not."
And the old sailor-man is full of sound religion, and is as devoted a student of the Bible and misquoter of it as you can find anywhere. I don't know a better man or kinder hearted old soul than Saltmarsh, although he does swear a little, sometimes." "He seems to be perfect. I want to know him, Barrow." "You'll have the chance. I guess I hear them coming, now.
"No, no, that's not right, stupid sailor-man," she said, and she sang a verse at him over the last details of her work: "Spin, spin, belle Mergaton! The moon wheels full, and the tide flows high, And your wedding-gown you must put it on Ere the night hath no moon in the sky Gigoton Mergaton, spin!" She paused. He was entranced.
Somebody stirred up the camp-fire and put the kettle on, and Mrs. Bailey and I mixed up a smoking strong hot toddy for those brave fellows, who were by this time well exhausted. Then they set to work to make a boat, by drawing a large canvas under the body of the wagon, and fastening it securely. For this Lieutenant of mine had been a sailor-man and knew well how to meet emergencies.
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