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Oakhurst and Mother Shipton, who was actually relaxing into amiability. "Is this yer a d -d picnic?" said Uncle Billy, with inward scorn, as he surveyed the sylvan group, the glancing firelight, and the tethered animals in the foreground. Suddenly an idea mingled with the alcoholic fumes that disturbed his brain.
Oakhurst and Mother Shipton, who was actually relaxing into amiability. "Is this yer a damned picnic?" said Uncle Billy with inward scorn as he surveyed the sylvan group, the glancing firelight, and the tethered animals in the foreground. Suddenly an idea mingled with the alcoholic fumes that disturbed his brain.
Moreover, I move myself into the chair and second the motion, which, nobody objectin', is carried unanimously. Gentlemen, the business of this here meetin' is to appoint a commander to this here ship, an' what could be more in accordance with the rule o' three not to mention the rules o' four and common sense than a Shipton takin' command. Who's goin' to make the first reslootion?"
As the escort disappeared, their pent-up feelings found vent in a few hysterical tears from the Duchess, some bad language from Mother Shipton, and a Parthian volley of expletives from Uncle Billy. The philosophic Oakhurst alone remained silent.
There was 'Little Red Riding-hood, 'Valentine and Orson, 'Sinbad the Sailor, 'The Seven Sleepers, 'Mother Shipton, 'Johnny Armstrong, 'Old Nixon's Prophecy, and a whole host of similar 'sensation' stories, printed on coarse paper, with a flaming picture on the title-page.
Certain it is that if Robin Wright and Sam Shipton had known what was before them when they stood one breezy afternoon on the ship's deck, casting glances of admiration up at the mountain waves of the southern seas, or taking bird's-eye views of the valleys between them their eyes would not have glistened with such flashes of delight, for the fair prospects they dreamed of were not destined to be realised.
The Duchess turned away sharply to conceal something that reddened her cheeks through its professional tint, and Mother Shipton requested Piney not to "chatter." But when Mr. Oakhurst returned from a weary search for the trail, he heard the sound of happy laughter echoed from the rocks.
With a wilder yell they fell back into their boats, shocked beyond expression! A few of them, however, chanced to lay hold of ropes or parts of the vessel that were not electrified. These gained the bulwarks. "Shove in some more acid," said the chief electrician in suppressed excitement to Sam Shipton, who stood beside the batteries below.
As his pulse was pronounced by Dr Shipton to be all right, he was gratified with a hearty supper, a long pull at the tankard of sparkling water, and a good deal of information and small-talk about the pirates, the wreck of the Triton, and the science of electricity. "But you have not told us yet," said Sam, "how it was that you came to fail into the hands of the pirates."
The things that we carried were necessities food, medicines, bedding, instruments for determining the altitude and longitude and latitude except a few books, each in small compass: Lyra's were in German, consisting of two tiny volumes of Goethe and Schiller; Kermit's were in Portuguese; mine, all in English, included the last two volumes of Gibbon, the plays of Sophocles, More's "Utopia," Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus, the two latter lent me by a friend, Major Shipton of the regulars, our military attaché at Buenos Aires.
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