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You had ought to tell me that you and the rest, that lost me my schooner, with your interference, burn you! But not you, you can't; you ain't got the invention of a cockroach. But civil you can speak, and shall, George Merry, you may lay to that." "That's fair enow," said the old man Morgan. "Fair! I reckon so," said the sea-cook. "You lost the ship; I found the treasure.
"A sea-cook who was such a wooden-head that when he made doughnuts they turned green. He's got one in his hand that he's about to heave into the sea." "Oh, horrors! No!" exclaimed Georgina, as scandalized as if some false report had been circulated about one of her family.
Under this belief, men of a despairing turn of mind would have ceased to exert themselves, and yielded to a fate that appeared almost certain to ensue. But neither the English sailor nor the Coromantee sea-cook were individuals of the yielding kind.
Quietly and with no show of emotion, as befitted a sea-cook and a philosopher, Melankthon Peters heard these revelations. If he had his prejudices as to the wisdom or folly of marrying widows, he said no word. But in the matter of Barnacles he felt more free to express something of his uneasiness.
Were he given to reflection, it ought not to surprise him to find a Portuguese sea-cook maintaining that it is wrong to steal, except from the rich; or to learn that a Wahabee saint rated the smoking of tobacco as the worst possible sin next to idolatry, while maintaining that murder, robbery, and such like, were peccadilloes which a merciful God might properly overlook.
But although the sailor had been able to accomplish this much, and was also able to keep Snowball from slipping farther down, he soon discovered that he was unable to pull him up again. It was just as much as his strength was equal to, even when supplemented by the weight of the drogue, to keep the sea-cook in the place where he had succeeded in checking him.
How thoughtful o' the lad! Just like 'im, as I said it war!" "We bess swim for de cask an' take 'im in tow," suggested the sea-cook; "no harm hab 'im 'longside too. If de wind 'pring up, de ole chess be no use much. De cask de berry ting den." "You're right, Snowy! we musn't leave the cask behind us. If the kit have served us a good turn, the other 'ud be safer in a rough sea.
"Why, I did, of course; I had but one pistol, and, when I fired that off, I was forced to make up a broadside with what I could." "Was there ever such a stupid!" said the admiral; "doctor, doctor, you talked of us making two mistakes; but you forgot a third and worse one still, and that was the bringing such a lubberly son of a sea-cook into the place as this fellow."
"Out of the way there! Putterum. This is a Rajah! Putterum. Very small Rajah! Putterum. Sixpenny Rajah! Putterum. Holes in his elbows! Putterum. Capitan Slipshod! Putterum. Son of a sea-cook! Putterum. Hush! he will beat us! Putterum. Hush! he will kick us! Putterum. Kick us and curse us! Putterum. Not he, the greenhorn! Putterum. Don't understand us! Putterum. Don't know the lingo! Putterum.
And so with one remark or another, all marched out and left Silver and me alone with the torch. The sea-cook instantly removed his pipe. "Now, look you here, Jim Hawkins," he said in a steady whisper that was no more than audible, "you're within half a plank of death, and, what's a long sight worse, of torture. They're going to throw me off. But you mark, I stand by you through thick and thin.
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