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It's not often that one gets a command before being two months at sea, and, hang me, now I've got it if I won't keep it; and Mr Smallsole may mast-head whom he pleases. I'm sorry for poor Gossett, though; if Vigors supposes me dead, how he will murder the poor little fellow however, it is all for the good of the service, and I'll revenge him when I come back. Hang me if I won't take a cruise."
"Argue the point!" roared Mr Smallsole "By Jove, I'll teach you to argue the point away with you, sir." "If you please, sir," continued Jack, "the captain told me that the articles of war were the rules and regulations by which everyone in the service was to be guided.
Jack made an oration, which lasted more than half an hour, in which all the arguments he had brought forward to Jolliffe in the preceding chapter were entered fully into. Mr Jolliffe was then examined, and also Mr Smallsole was interrogated: after which the captain and the first lieutenant were left alone.
His spirit in not submitting to, and meeting, Vigors when he had hardly recovered from his severe prostration of sea-sickness, had gained him with the many respect, and with all, except his antagonist and Mr Smallsole, good-will.
"Yes, to your hammock but it's no go with old Smallsole, if I want a bit of caulk. But, Jack, what do you say shall we keep watch to-night?" "Why, to tell you the truth, I have been thinking the same thing I don't much like the looks of the padrone he squints."
Mr Smallsole's violence made Mr Biggs violent, which made the boatswain's mate violent and the captain of the forecastle violent also; all which is practically exemplified by philosophy in the laws of motion, communicated from one body to another: and as Mr Smallsole swore, so did the boatswain swear also the boatswain's mate, the captain of the forecastle, and all the men; showing the force of example.
Now, as we have observed, he was Jack's inveterate enemy indeed Jack had already made three, Mr Smallsole, Mr Biggs, the boatswain, and Easthupp, the purser's steward. Mr Smallsole was glad to be left in command, as he hoped to have an opportunity of punishing our hero, who certainly laid himself not a little open to it.
Mr Smallsole has behaved tyrannically and unjustly; he punished the lad for no crime; so that what between the master and me, I am now on the horns of a dilemma. If I punish the boy, I feel that I am punishing him more for my own fault and the fault of others, than his own.
"For punishment, sir," replied the master. "What have I done, sir?" "No reply, sir up with you." "If you please, sir," replied Jack, "I should wish to argue this point a little." "Argue the point," roared Mr Smallsole. "By Jove, I'll teach you to argue the point away with you, sir."
Sawbridge thought so too but both agreed that Jack's rights of man were in considerable danger. The day before the ship sailed, the Captain and Mr Asper dined with the governor, and as there was little more to do, Mr Sawbridge, who had not quitted the ship since she had been in port, and had some few purchases to make, left her in the afternoon in the charge of Mr Smallsole, the master.
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