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Updated: September 8, 2025
"This is a process that may be easier advised than performed, perhaps," Roswell quietly observed. "Don't you believe that, Captain Gar'ner. I've known the most shiverin', smoke-dried hands in a large crew, hardened and brought to an edge, a'ter a little trouble, as a body would temper an axe with steel. The first thing to be done is to make 'em scrub one another every mornin' in cold water.
So I gets 'im into his chair and begins pullin' his boots off. 'What makes you talk like that? I sez. 'You knows as you was ever so much better last night. When you've had yer medicine you'll be all right. He said nowt for a time, but just sat, tremblin' and shiverin' in his chair. So I sez, 'Hadn't you better 'ave the doctor? 'It's no good, he sez; 'I'm come 'ome for the last time.
"An' I was the last one to see her the night she went away. She came in here, po' thing, all shiverin' with the cold, an' she wouldn't set down but kep' walkin' up an' down, up an' down, jest like you've been doin' fur this last hour. Po' thing! Po' thing! I tried to make her take a sip of brandy, but she laughed an' said she was quite warm, with her teeth chatterin' fit to break "
'Twas there Captain Moonlight started from, an' the whole disthrict was shiverin' in their shoes. I refused to subscribe to the Land Lague, an' they started to compil me, but, be the powers, they tackled the wrong tom-cat whin they wint to coarce Dennis Mulcahy. Threatenin' letthers, wid pictures o' death's-heads, an' guns, an' pikes, an' coffins, was but a thrifle to the way they wint on.
"What captain?" yelled Kennedy, all ablaze at the instant. "Spake up, ye shiverin' loon!" "Blake! He got way ahead of us " "Then it's to him you should be runnin', not home, ye cur! Turn about now!
'So the dhress-rehearsal came to an end, an', bekaze I was curious, I stayed behind whin the scene-shiftin' was ended, an' I shud ha' been in barricks, lyin' as flat as a toad under a painted cottage thing. They was talkin' in whispers, an' she was shiverin' an' gaspin' like a fresh-hukked fish.
But I up and as't to see it, as bold as a coyote in a hen-roost. Then she sez, kind of soft an' smilin': 'Why, Mister Jasper, what d'you want to see my album for? you don't know my folks." "A glorious opportunity," said Ajax. "What did you reply, my buck?" "Dog-gone it! I'd ought to have sailed right in, but I sot there, shiverin', an' said: Oh! because ... jest like a school-girl.
"He couldn't have done better. When he'd finished I took charge, hurried him below my! the mess down there! and got him into somebody's dry clothes. All the time he was whimperin' and shiverin'; and he whimpered and shivered still when I coaxed him into his bunk and tucked him up in every rug I could find. There was a bottle of whisky, pretty near empty, 'pon the table.
She was setting straddleways like a mountain, and between him and her went the three packanimals, plumb shiverin' played out, and the flour they had two hundred pounds tilted over hellwards, with the red-tailed parrot shoutin' landslides in his cage tied on top o' the leanin' sacks.
We took the green back log out an' fetched in a dry one, but that chimbly smoked worse than ever, an' we had to put the fire out altogether, an' the gals set there shiverin' till the rain held up a bit an' the sky cleared, an' then someone goes out an' looks up an' sings out, "Why, there's somethin' acrost the top of the blazin' chimbly!" an' someone else climbs up an' fetches down the bag.
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