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"Hola! shipmet," said the Knacker, in a tone that was doubtless intended to be affable. "It is to be a brave show to-day and you are come in good time to see it. Seven thunders! but one always sees the black-jackets flocking thick as flies in a pudding when the smell of the saucepan is in the air. Your master yonder was of too proud a stomach to clink can with us, but you will be more amiable.
"You see, Doctor, I've had somethin' in the hold a good spell't I wanted to break bulk on, but I didn't know as I ever was goin' to see a shipmet agin; and now you've jined convoy jist in time, for Davy Jones's a'n't fur off. Are you calculatin' to go North afore long?" "Yes, I mean to go next spring," said I.
See, the grave solemnity with which he smokes while I say this proves the truth of my assertion. Well, since he has never told you, I will tell yell myself. You have no objection, captain?" The captain sent a volume of smoke from his lips, and followed it up with "Fire away, shipmet."
See, the grave solemnity with which he smokes while I say this proves the truth of my assertion. Well, since he has never told you, I will tell you myself. You have no objection, captain?" The captain sent a volume of smoke from his lips, and followed it up with "Fire away, shipmet."
"That's the way I do with the rabbuds, shipmet," said the man laughing. "You dog! you scoundrel!" panted Hilary, continuing his ineffectual struggle. "Better be still, boy," said the man coolly. "You'll only hurt yourself." As he spoke he wrested the cutlass from the young man's hand, after which he coolly took out a tobacco-bag and helped himself to a quid.
'Bunsby, said the Captain, grasping him by the hand, 'what cheer, my lad, what cheer? 'Shipmet, replied the voice within Bunsby, unaccompanied by any sign on the part of the Commander himself, 'hearty, hearty.
"Hullo, youngster!" said a cheery voice; and Mark turned sharply, to find the little squatty sailor before him, in tarry trousers and flannel shirt, bare-headed and heated with work. "Hullo, Widgeon!" cried Mark. "Hullo, shipmet!" cried the little sailor. "Now, then, just you mind, or " He did not finish, but made a peculiar gesture as if he were about to pitch the dog over the side.
It was difficult, however, to be sure of this; the Commander having no trace of expression in his face when sober. 'Cuttle, said the Commander, getting off the chest, and opening the lid, 'are these here your traps? Captain Cuttle looked in and identified his property. 'Done pretty taut and trim, hey, shipmet? said Bunsby.
Billy was hungry, and so was his mate, and when Billy carved he prepared so to do by opening his jack-knife and whetting it on his boot, after which he seized the bird, which was double the size of a large fowl, by one leg. "Now, shipmet," he said to his companion, "lay holt o' t'other understanding with both hands, and when I say haul! you put your back into it."
Day, shipmet." This last was intended for the dog; but, a few moments before, Bruff had slowly risen, crossed the room, and drawn the door open by inserting one paw in the crack, and then passed through. "Why, he arn't there!" said Billy Widgeon after a glance round. "My sarvice to him all the same," he added, and went out.
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