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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I told you so, Mafame," said the man; "what are you skylarking about the mizen chains for, man? Come in, will you, come in." The Captain's caution to his servant flashed on me. "Come in, my man, and give my respects to the Captain, and tell him that I am quite well now; the fresh air has perfectly restored me."
After dark the youths of the village roamed about, playing and skylarking like so many white lads of their own age, but the girls as soon as the twilight came remained close in the lodges. Will saw a kind of happiness he had never looked upon before, a happiness that was wholly of the moment, untroubled by any thoughts of the future, and therefore without alloy.
In the middle watch of this night, our two cats have I told you that we brought two cats from England with us? as was their wont, were skylarking and cutting capers on the hammock nettings and davits, when tabby the lesser, instead of jumping on something palpable, made a leap on space with the natural result, for he lighted on water and was rapidly whirled astern by the inky waters of the Tartar gulf.
He was a tall man, somewhat stout, with a bald patch on the top of his head, and grey hair and whiskers, a thoroughly soldier-like hooked nose, and fine piercing grey eyes. Good-natured as he was, he would stand no nonsense or any skylarking; and we all agreed that when he was in the army he was certain to have kept all the men under him in capital order. Our dancing-master was Mr Jay.
As you very truly say, you have wasted time enough; the moment has arrived when, if you wish to make headway in your profession, as I suppose you do, you must begin to take life seriously, and realise that you were not sent into the world merely to skylark, although skylarking, within reasonable limits and at the proper time, is possibly a harmless enough amusement."
McGillicuddy, who was usually conveniently deaf and blind to the boys' skylarking, looked up from the paper he was reading, hurried to the scene, quieted the disturbance, ordered Monty to get down and go back, and spoke sharply to the Aid about paying any attention to the men's harmless capers. The bugle blew "Attention," and everybody sprang to his place, and waited eagerly for the next command.
I was within an ace of losing my hold, and tumbling overboard. "Heaven have mercy on me, what's that?" "It's that skylarking son of a gun, Jem Sparkle's monkey, sir. You, Jem, you'll never rest till that brute is made shark bait of." But Jackoo vanished up the stay again, chuckling and grinning in the ghostly radiance, as if he had been the "Spirit of the Lamp."
"They may have been skylarking and may have carried the watch and chain off by accident, let us say," finished the captain, significantly. "If anybody came in, nobody who sleeps in our room seems to be aware of it." Captain Putnam and Jack passed up to the dormitory, followed by Josiah Crabtree. They were soon joined by Pepper and the other occupants of the apartment.
Well, one day the ship was running before the wind with studden sails set alow and aloft and every sail drawing, so that she was going not less than eight or ten knots, when this youngster, with two or three others, was skylarking aloft. He had gone out on the fore-topsail yard-arm, when somehow or other he lost his hold and down he fell.
But at length they came to another earth, and by the starlight Mr. Tebrick could just make out the other cubs skylarking in the shadows.
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