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Updated: May 13, 2025
To the average American this might have seemed like a cruel order, but now the list of dead sailormen and marines had reached twenty-five, and there were scores of wounded American fighting men. Stern steps were necessary to stop the deadly sniping. Another day passed, and Vera Cruz, now completely occupied by the Americans, had ceased to be a battle ground.
So has everybody else heard of him a worthless scoundrel who broke his mother's heart; a man who disgraced his family a gentleman turned brigand a renegade who has gone back on his blood! Tell him so if you see him! Tell him I said so; I'm his father, and know! No I don't want your silks don't want anything that has to do with sailormen. I am busy please go away.
Watch the old fellow playing the fiddle, and I'll lay my eyes that in a half minute or so you'll have some of the sailormen dancing." Robert shuddered again. The glee in the slaver's voice was wicked. The cynical jesting tone was gone and in its place was only unholy malice. But Robert was held by the scene upon the deck of the stranger. "Yes, two of the sailors have begun to dance," he said.
He heard the chair drawn back, and the door opened. A cold wind rushed up the staircase, and a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife gave him courage to run down to her side, and then to the gate beyond. The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road. Sailormen 'ave their faults, said the night watchman, frankly. I'm not denying of it.
He was a silly, pasty-faced sort o' chap, always giving hisself airs about eddication to sailormen who didn't believe in it, and one night, when we was homeward-bound from Sydney, he suddenly sat up in 'is bunk and laughed so loud that he woke us all up. "Wot's wrong, cookie?" ses one o' the chaps. "I was dreaming," ses the cook, "such a funny dream.
The first law of nature may be disregarded by heroes, but the Andromeda's crew were just common sailormen, who did not know when they were heroic and did not care if they were deemed bestial. It may be urged that they had suffered much. Out of a ship's company of twenty-two exactly one half had survived the day's rigors.
From the neighbouring fish market, from everywhere sailormen and others came running, followed by children with gaping mouths, while from the doors of houses far away shot women with scared faces, like ferreted rabbits from their burrows.
A gay scene of colour and animation. A fine turn-out to see the fortune of the Merchants' Cup. At two the Regatta began. A race for longshore craft showed that the boarding-house "crimps" were as skillful at boatman's work as at inducing sailormen to desert their ships. Then two outriggers flashed by, contesting a heat for a College race.
The local sailormen of that time used to caricature him running in confused frenzy from side to side of the quarterdeck with the tiller, and imitate the pilot and himself haranguing each other to keep cool, and immediately afterwards breaking out into violent attacks on each other's capacity for giving and receiving orders.
Leave line just slack abaout as 'tis now, and kip a good fine look-out be'ind 'ee." "There's an accommodatin' blighter for you!" said Pyecroft. "Where does he expect we'll be, with these currents evolutin' like sailormen at the Agricultural Hall?" I left the bridge to watch the wire-rope at the stern as it drew out and smacked down upon the water.
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