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The ship's chaplain came and offered a prayer, after which the sergeant asked Boseley if he wished to have his eyes bandaged. "No; I am not afraid to face my executioners," he answered. It was an intensely solemn occasion, and among all those hardy, rough-mannered sailors, there was not one, unless it was Captain Snipes, who was not deeply affected.
That morning Fernando and Terrence had gone to his bag, taken out his best clothes and, obtaining the permission of the marine sentry at the "brig," had handed them to him, to be put on before he was summoned to the mast. This was done to propitiate Captain Snipes, who liked to see a tidy sailor; but it was all in vain. To all the young American's supplications, Captain Snipes turned a deaf ear.
Fernando stood a little to windward of him, and, though Captain Snipes was a large, powerful man, it was quite certain that a sudden rush against him, along the slanting deck, would infallibly pitch him headforemost into the ocean, though he who rushed must needs go over with him.
We should say, he urges, "for large flocks of wild fowl, of swans, a whiteness, of geese, a gaggle, of brent, a gang, of duck, a team or a plump, of widgeon, a trip, of snipes, a wisp, of larks, an exaltation. The young of grouse are cheepers, of quail, squeakers, of wild duck, flappers." And yet, careless of these proprieties, Young America goes "gunning" to good purpose. So with all games.
What gigantic form is that which stalks thus awfully before the eyes of my memory; his face, rough and dark as the cloud of winter, and his eyeballs burning like coals of fire? 'Tis the impetuous captain Snipes.
If you snipes wouldn't gab so much, but listen to what I say, you'd git along better. Silence in ranks. Now, try it over again. Faces straight to the front. Eyes cast to the right, until they catch the buttons on the breast of the second man. Right dress!" "Great grief," sighed he, looking at the result. "You wriggle about like so many eels. Might as well try to line up so many kittens.
One of them, then called Southampton House, and subsequently Bedford House, was removed about fifty years ago to make room for a new city, which now covers with its squares, streets, and churches, a vast area, renowned in the seventeenth century for peaches and snipes.
These and many other colours of female birds seem to me exactly analogous to the colours of both sexes in such groups as the snipes, woodcocks, plovers, ptarmigan, desert birds, Arctic animals, greenbirds. This letter and that of September 27 appear both to answer the same letter from Darwin. I am sorry to find that our difference of opinion on this point is a source of anxiety to you.
My bosom heaved with emotions unutterable, while the tear of delicious admiration swelled in my eyes. As to captain Snipes, he appeared equally affected. His eyes were riveted on the general, and towards the close of the speech his breath seemed suspended; his color went and came; and his face reddened and swelled; as under the powerful eloquence of the pulpit.
"It is impossible, sir, that this man should not know his station," replied, the lieutenant. "Captain Snipes, I will swear, I never knew it before this moment," answered Fernando. With an oath, the captain cried: "Do you contradict my officer? I'll flog you, by !" Fernando had been on board the frigate for more than two years and remained unscourged.
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