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"I'm glad we are in a safe harbor," continued the old sea-dog, but in a tone which seemed to belie his words, for he was not quite willing to believe that the boy had piloted the vessel four or five miles, without even seeing the shore a single time. "When did you leave New York, Captain Bounce?" asked Leopold. "Three days ago. We had a fine run till we went into the fog yesterday morning.
Nevertheless, the sturdy old sea-dog who was cast adrift, amid the raging of the elements, comported himself in a way to do credit to his training.
Ah! thou hast the palabras, and the knee, and the cap, and the quip, and the innuendo, and the true town fashion of it all no old tarry-breeks of a sea-dog, like thy dad! My lord, you'll let them fight?" "The Spaniard, sir; but no one else.
"Where is the sea-dog?" asks the night editor, who is in command of the paper. "Good evening, Corkey," says the telegraph editor. "I trust we are spared for another day of usefulness," says the night editor, with an unction which is famous in the office. "How is the ooze of the salt deep, commodore?" asks the night editor. "How is the coral and green amber?" asks the telegraph editor.
I have described this sea-dog before as a younger sea-dog twenty years younger, in fact, he was in my employ then he and his sloop Screamer. Every big foundation stone that Caleb set in Shark Ledge Light the one off Keyport harbor can tell you about them both.
'It is generally worms who turn king's evidence, said Sir John, with a laugh at his own joke, and then added quickly, 'I don't speak personally, of course. Your captain is not exactly one's idea of an old sea-dog, but he is a gentle, intelligent little man. 'Ross said something about there being trouble on his estancia, said Peter. 'I don't know what it was all about.
We went round the bay, but found no traces of man, but numerous herds of the amphibious animal, called sometimes the sea-lion, the sea-dog, or the sea-elephant, or trunked phoca: modern voyagers give it the last name. These animals, though of enormous size, are gentle and peaceful, unless roused by the cruelty of man.
When he raised his eyes he could see old Swinburne facing him with his cap pressed to his breast, and his rugged, weather-beaten, impassive face streaming with drops of water like a lump of chipped red granite in a shower. It was all very well for that old sea-dog to cry. He had to read on to the end; but after the splash he did not remember much of what happened for the next few days.
His disposition, character, and deeds have been the subject of much discussion. By most writers he is held to have been a man of coarse, "unsympathetic" nature, "a rough sea-dog," capable of good feeling and kindly impulses at times, but neither governed by them nor by principle. That he was a "highwayman of the seas," a buccaneer and pirate, guilty of blood for gold, there can be no doubt.
HAWKINS. The Hawkins Voyages, published by the Hakluyt Society, give the best collection of original accounts. They deal with three generations of this famous family and are prefaced by a good introduction. A Sea-Dog of Devon, by R.A.J. Walling is the best recent biography of Sir John Hawkins.
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