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Still, on making a trip out to the reef later on, to see whether any more of the timbers remained there, a "find" was discovered which greatly rejoiced Snowball's heart when it was brought on shore.
"Are we bloomin' masheens?" inquired Donkin in a piercing tone, and dived under the elbows of the front rank. "Soon show 'im we ain't boys..." "The man's a man if he is black." "We ain't goin' to work this bloomin' ship shorthanded if Snowball's all right..." "He says he is." "Well then, strike, boys, strike!" "That's the bloomin' ticket."
A supply of this article had been fortunately thrown on to the raft along with the other odds and ends that had came in so usefullys and it was now melted down in Snowball's recovered copper.
But again came the cry of the horse from afar, and Gibbie, this time recognizing the voice as Snowball's, forgot the rest. He stood up on the very top of the rick and sent his keen glance round on all sides. The cry came again and again, so that he was satisfied in what direction he must look.
Snowball's first thought, after having partially recovered from his fright, was to examine the plank from which, like an acrobat from his spring-board, he had made that involuntary somersault.
Though not naturally of a wicked disposition, he was by no means particular as to the company he kept, or the sort of ship he sailed in, so long as the wages were good and the store-room well supplied; and as these conditions are usually found on board of a slaver, it was not Snowball's first voyage in a vessel of the kind.
'You'd holler fur your milk bottle before he goes a eighth with you. "'Aw, you go to hell! says Micky. "I borrows a curb 'n' chain from Eddy Murphy he's been usin' it on ole Dandelion. It's fierce you can bust a hoss's jaw with it. I puts it on Hamilton next work-out. "'I guess that'll hold little Hammy, I says, when Snowball's up. But it don't.
As it was, the shark saw itself vis-a-vis to an adversary nearly as large as itself and quite as courageous; and it is possible also that its pilot-fish, a brace of which had advanced close to Snowball's snout, and after submitting his dusky carcass to a brief examination returned to their master, it is just possible that these emissaries had reported to their patron, that the game he was in pursuit of must be approached with caution.
Even Snowball's galley was upset and rolled about in the waist to leeward, the sea having not been quite strong enough to carry it overboard, while its unhappy occupant, half drowned in the scuppers and not able to extricate himself from his perilous position, was loudly calling for aid.
He was already dressed, however, and would have rushed up on deck the moment Kate told him what had occurred had she not laid her hand on his arm and prevented him, pointing out how much better Snowball's plan would result in bringing material assistance to the little party who were still struggling with the mutineers, and fighting desperately, as they could hear.
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