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Updated: June 10, 2025
So I calls the crew aft, an' told 'em how the matter stood. `Now, lads, says I, `to speak plain English, the sloop is sinkin' so you had as well turn to an' pump for yer lives, an' I'll show ye how. With that I off coat an' set to work, an' took my turn the whole voyage. But it was touch an' go with us.
At last, I thought I saw a splash in the water, as if somebody was making a desperate splurging there, and I pulled for it, and raced to where he was in no time, and sure enough there was his little brother, Zeb, just a sinkin' out of sight. So I makes a spring in after him in no time, caught him by the hair of his head, just as he was vamosing, and swam ashore with him.
"De Titanic's sinkin' in de deep blue, Sinkin' in de deep blue, deep blue, Sinkin' in de sea. O de women an' de chilen a-floatin' in de sea, O de women an' de chilen a-floatin' in de sea, Roun' dat cole iceberg, Sung 'Nearer, my gawd, to Thee, Sung 'Nearer, my gawd, to Thee, Nearer to Thee." The guitar was strumming the hymn-tune.
The very absence of oaths seemed to make his slow speech more deadly. "Ah, ye misbegotten young fool," he said, "so there ye stand, scared like the cowardly spawn ye are. We took ye, and kept ye, and fed ye. What's more, we was friends to ye, eh mates? An' how do ye treat yer friends? Leave 'em to starve or drown on a sinkin' ship! Sneak off like a dog an' a son of a cowardly dog!"
"There 's not one o' ye," cried Gurdon, "but if ye had a boat fit 'u'd do all ye could, an' men sinkin' and a-wavin' ye like that let me off! There 's no other way " His voice broke. He looked at his wife and child, a look the woman understood for all eternity.
Talk about speedin'! When you're travelin' through the water at a forty-mile-an-hour gait, and so close you can trail your fingers, you know all about it. Although it's a calm mornin', with hardly a ripple, the motion was a little bumpy. No wonder! Then all of a sudden I has a sinkin' sensation somewhere under my vest, the bumpin' stops, and I feels like I'd shuffled off somethin' heavy.
I ha' the laugh o' them all. Ye found watter in the engine-room? "'To speak wi'oot prejudice, I said, 'there was some watter. "'They thought she was sinkin' after the propeller went. She filled wi' extraordinary rapeedity. Calder said it grieved him an' Bannister to abandon her. "I thought o' the dinner at Radley's, an' what like o' food I'd eaten for eight days.
"Oh, Waitstill has gone back to be a nurse she's gone to the Philippines." Sez I gladly, "Then we shall see her, Arvilly." "Yes," sez she, "and that wuz one reason that I wanted to go, though she's acted like a fool, startin' off agin to help the govermunt. I've done my last work for it, and I told her so; I sez, if see the govermunt sinkin' in a mud hole I wouldn't lift a finger to help it out.
Well, Piney Martin he has got him one let me see when did he git it, Henery?" Old Holmes furrowed his brow and closed one eye, seeking with the other the inspiration of the sky. "July sixth," he answered. "Don't you mind, Ike, it come the same day and on the wery same stage as the news of the sinkin' of the Spaynish fleet?" "Nonsense," retorted Isaac. "You're allus mixin' dates, Henery.
"'My Lord! he screams. 'We're sinkin'. Help! help! "'Set down! I roared. 'Thought you knew how to act in a boat. Set down! d'you hear me? "He set. Likewise he shivered and groaned. It got darker all the time and the wind freshened every minute. I expected to see that jury mast go by the board at any time. Lucky for us it held. "No use tellin' about the next couple of hours.
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