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Some member of the reporting staff of the Daily News was disabled or had gone upon the spree. Anyway the staff was shorthanded for a night, and I was told that I could earn a guinea by presenting myself to the chief at the House of Commons, and that there would probably be very little indeed to do for it.
"You Scots are hard in the head, but soft in the disposition. Come, Chief shall they walk the plank?" "Good deescipline," assented the Chief, "but it would leave us a bit shorthanded." "True," said the Captain gloomily. "I was thinkin'," remarked the Chief diffidently one hates to think before the Captain; that's always supposed to be his job. "Yes?"
Stanley, looking out from time to time, "we got in our potatoes just in the nick of time." After supper that evening I told them of my plan to leave them on the following morning. "Don't do that," said Mrs. Stanley heartily; "stay on with us." "Yes," said Mr. Stanley, "we're shorthanded, and I'd be glad to have a man like you all summer.
"Are we bloomin' masheens?" inquired Donkin in a piercing tone, and dived under the elbows of the front rank. "Soon show 'im we ain't boys..." "The man's a man if he is black." "We ain't goin' to work this bloomin' ship shorthanded if Snowball's all right..." "He says he is." "Well then, strike, boys, strike!" "That's the bloomin' ticket."
As the gale gave no signs of abating, our three Indians swam on shore, Kallolo with his blowpipe, and the other two with their bows, to kill some game. After safely landing, they were soon lost to sight amid the trees. The skipper would allow no one else to go. "It will not be wise to be left shorthanded, in case anything should happen," he observed. "We know not what may occur."
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