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One at a time they carried the unconscious men to the forecastle; then the crew mustered aft at another thundering summons, and listened to a forceful speech by Captain Bacon, delivered in quick, incisive epigrams, to the effect that if a man aboard his ship whether he believed himself shipped or shanghaied, a sailor, a priest, a policeman, or a dry-nurse showed the slightest hesitation at obeying orders, or the slightest resentment at what was said to him, he would be punished with fists, brass knuckles, belaying-pins, or handspikes, the officers were here for that purpose, and if he persisted, he would be shot like a mad dog.
Ten days after they brought him up from the hold Billy was limping about the deck of the Halfmoon doing light manual labor. From the other sailors aboard he learned that he was not the only member of the crew who had been shanghaied.
Tip said it was highly important that the Pollard boats should break down while under the eyes of all Annapolis, so that it would seem that they could not be depended upon.” Truax here became so ill that his audience had to wait until he could proceed. Then Jack asked: “What sort of looking fellow is Gaynor?” “He was the black-bearded man who shanghaied you in the white knockabout.
Cap'n Sproul deliberately and with much decision took off his silk hat and held it toward the Honorable Bickford. "I resign!" he said. "I was shanghaied into this thing against my good judgment, and it's come out just as I expected it would. It ain't no place for me, and I resign!" "It isn't any place for gentlemen," agreed Mr. Bickford, ignoring the proffered hat.
He delivered a vicious kick at each of the two standing men, bawled out, "Relieve the wheel an' lookout that'll do the watch," and went aft, while the crew assisted the seasick men to the forecastle and into three bedless bunks bedless, because sailors must furnish their own, and these men had been shanghaied.
I was shanghaied on the Shark, and it's glad I am to be out of that bum crowd." Jimmie, who had followed the sailors to the platform, now came back with the information that three of them had been picked up by a native canoe which had now disappeared from sight in a group of islands. The other, he said, had gone down. "How much do those sailors know?" asked Ned of the man Hans had taken prisoner.
With a taunting laugh, some one turned a key in the lock and before we could move a quick shift of packing cases against the door made escape impossible. Here we were marooned, shanghaied, as it were, within sight if not call of Herndon and our friends. We had run up against professional smugglers, of whom I had vaguely read, disguised as stewards, deckhands, stokers, and other workers.
Men who are tracked down and shanghaied by their wives have just as hard a time of it as men who walk fatuously into the trap by formally proposing. Even on the ghostly side, determinism does not do much damage to theology.
The Sea Lion made slow time, for the crippled Shark which still floated rolled and tumbled heavily in her wake and the sea was rougher than it had been before for many days. At last, however, she entered the long inlet leading up to Canton and cast anchor. "Ever been in these waters?" Ned asked of the American sailor. "Sure," was the reply. "That is why they shanghaied me in San Francisco."
Up on the deck the choleric captain still stamped and swore, and his crew, with well-concealed mirth, went about their various duties as if they were accustomed to have shanghaied men act this way. They sympathized with the unfortunate pair, realizing how they themselves would feel if shanghaied to break broncos.
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