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Updated: May 25, 2025
I ud lose the mar to a dead sartinty, if I didn't make the high ground; so I spoke to the critter to do her best, an' kep on. The poor beast didn't need any whippin' she knew as well's I did meself thur wur danger, an' she wur a-doin' her darndest, an' no mistake. Still the water riz, an' kep a-risin', until it come clur up to her shoulder. "I begun to git skeart in airnest.
"And all I'm skeart about," said another, "is that the Teaser 'll come back 'fore we've picked the bones." I walked slowly away to join Mr Brooke, for the men's words set me thinking about the gunboat, and the way in which she had sailed and left us among these people. But I felt that there must have been good cause for it, or Captain Thwaites would never have gone off so suddenly.
If it hadn't been for your gal, they'd have raised thunder aboard, they would: you oughter be kinder proud, mister, to hev sich a sensible young woman fur yer darter! She warn't a bit skeart when the shock came; but braced herself up as cool as a cowcumber, and thar she's ben, keeping them noisy folks quiet, and tendin' her little siss like a Christian!"
They all appeared down in the mouth, an' badly skeart about the water; but for all that, I hed my fears that the painter or the bar I wan't afeard o' any o' the others mout git over thur fright afore the flood fell; an' thurfore I kept as quiet as any one o' them during the hul time I wur in thur company, an' stayin' all the time clost by the mar.
"I guess, mister," said Mr Lathrope a week later on, when he and Mr Meldrum were returning from an unsuccessful foray on the adjacent marshes that had been the haunt of the wild fowl without once getting a shot, much less bagging a duck to reward their trouble, "this'll be a tall moving; and the sooner we make tracks the better now, since all the game's skeart.
"A fire! whar?" exclaimed Mr Zachariah Lathrope poking his head out of the companion-way, judiciously concealing the remainder of his lanky person, as he had not yet quite finished his toilet. "Snakes and alligators, Cap'en, but I'm terrible skeart at fires! I hope it ain't up to much chucks?" "Oh, no!" said Captain Dinks, reassuringly, expressing what he wished more than what he felt.
Next thing was I come upon your two men, Mr Ramball, sir, and they got asking me questions; but I was too skeart to understand what they meant, and so they brought me here. You don't know, I suppose," he continued, speaking to one of the waiters who had come into the hall, "whether my mate came home safely with the clover cart?" "Bah!" cried Ramball. "With your giant indeed! Which way did he go?"
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