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Updated: June 17, 2025


And I must plainly say ye drove a fool's bargain when ye let a man like the sailor-man so far forward in your private matters. But that's past praying for; and ye must lie on your bed the way ye made it. And the point in hand is just this: what did ye pay him?" "Has he tauld ye himsel'?" asked my uncle. "That's my concern," said Alan.

I took the glass from the captain, and believed I could make out the heads of two or three people showing above the bulwark rail abaft the mainmast. "'What's their trouble going to prove? said the captain. "'They're waiting for us, said I. 'They saw us, and put the helm down, and got their little ship in irons instead of backing their topsail yard. No sailor-man there, I doubt.

It is unfair to ask you to confess when I want you to wait until we win clear of our present difficulties before you decide whether or not you can find it to your liking to make a poor sailor-man happy." Joey was a highly accommodating dog under certain conditions. He had curled up so complacently that Elsie found she could hold him quite easily with one arm.

As for me, I couldn't help following the three, in a sort of wonder to see what would happen, to see whether the sailor-man in his wet togs would just melt away into the moonshine. But he didn't. I moved slowly, and I remembered afterwards that I walked on the grass, instead of on the path, as if I were afraid they might hear me coming.

"That night the steward went crazy, and started singing. First of all he began with the sort of songs that a sailor-man sings on the forecastle during the second dog-watch on a fine night; and from that he branched off into hymns. Then he fancied that he was at home once more, talking to his wife and the chicks, and it made my heart fairly bleed to listen to him.

"The country seems rather high class, I'll admit, Trot," replied the old sailor-man, looking around him, "but we don't know, as yet, what its people are like." "No one could live in such a country without being happy and good I'm sure of that," she said earnestly. "Don't you think so, Button-Bright?" "I'm not thinking, just now," answered the little boy.

Then was seen with what majesty the British sailor-man envisages a new situation. "Met gennelman heavy sheeway," said he. "Do tell me British gelman can't give 'ole Brish Navy lif' own blighted ste' cart. Have another drink!" "I didn't know they were as drunk as all that when they stopped me," I explained. "You can say all that at Linghurst," was the answer. "Come on." "Quite right," I said.

Strange, though, that sort of thing, he would confess, with the frankness of a superior intelligence, seemed to be catching. His establishment, for instance, was near the harbour, and whenever a sailor-man came in for a hair-cut or a shave if it was a strange face he couldn't help thinking directly, "Suppose he's the son of old Hagberd!" He laughed at himself for it. It was a strong craze.

It's the schnapps just the plain s- c-h-n-a-p-p-s schnapps. An' he's a good sailor-man, Jerry, when he's sober. But when he's schnappy he's sheer lunatic. Then his noddle goes pinwheeling and he's a blighted fool, and he'd snore in a gale and suffer for sleep in a dead calm.

"Tell me everything you know of this wretched business," he said, rising and closing the door which led into the outer room. "Well, sir, you have not been here for some weeks, or you would know that Dicky had found a friend lately an old shipmate, or petty-officer, he called him a sailor-man. Well-to-do, he seemed; the mate of a merchant vessel he might be.

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