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"I didn't ask your opinion," growled the skipper, shutting him up in a twinkling; and then, turning to me again, he looked at me inquiringly. "Well, Haldane, have you thought it out?" "Yes, captain, I have," I replied firmly, though respectfully, the ill- timed interference of the objectionable Mr Spokeshave having made me as obstinate as Mr Fosset.
"Yes, sir. I don't think there'll be any difficulty about that. Do you?" "No; the sun ought to be pretty clear at noon with a morning like this clear enough, at all events, for us to find out the latitude and longitude." "Just what I said to Spokeshave, sir, before I came down to call you awhile ago." "Quite so." "Aye, `quite so, sir."
"Quite so, Haldane; quite so," chuckled Spokeshave, as pleased as Punch at the imaginary compliment. "I do believe I could teach Irving a thing or two if I had the mind to!" "Yes, you donkey, if you had the mind to," said I witheringly, by giving an emphasis he did not mean to his own words.
"Mr O'Neil?" sang out the men on the lower deck, passing on his name in obedience to the skipper's orders from hand to hand, till the hail reached the after hatchway, down which Spokeshave roared with all the power of his lungs, being anxious on his own account to be heard and so released from his watch so that he could go below. "Mr O'Neil?" he again yelled out.
"Oh no, sir; he's on the bridge now, and I ought to have relieved him before this," I replied, only thinking of poor "Conky" and his tea then for the first time. "I wasn't even dreaming of him; I'm sure I beg his pardon!" "Well, you were dreaming of some one perhaps `nearer and dearer' than Spokeshave," rejoined Mr Fosset, with another genial laugh.
We had carried on like this for about an hour, steering steadily to the southwards, without catching sight again of the strange ship, though Spokeshave and I had continued to let off signal rockets and burn blue lights at intervals, the gale increasing in force each instant, and the waves growing bigger and bigger, so that they rose over the topsail as we raced along, when, all at once, a great green sea broke amidships, coming aboard of us just abaft of the engine-room hatchway, flooding all the waist on either side of the deckhouse and rolling down below in a regular cataract of tumid water, sweeping everything before it.
Ah, he was a very different sort of fellow to little Spokeshave, being a nice, jolly, good-natured chap, chubby and brown-bearded, and liked by every one from the skipper down to the cabin boy.
I started to obey Captain Applegarth's order, but I had hardly got three steps down the ladder when Spokeshave saved me further trouble by coming up on the bridge again of his own accord, without waiting to be summoned.
"Besides what, my boy?" he asked, on my pausing here, almost afraid to mention the sight I had noticed on the deck of the ill-fated ship in the presence of two such sceptical listeners as Mr Fosset and my more immediate superior, the third officer, Spokeshave. "You need not be afraid of saying anything you like before me. I'm captain of this ship."
Plane, spokeshave, gouge, and chisel "I-passed-the-Lightning" Parallel-O- grams-A graduate of Antioch "Continual cursing" A catastrophe "Troubles are a sociable sisterhood" "In truth I was very sorry" He had dreamed wide awake of these things A friend of Emerson and Henry James Embarked at Folkestone for France.
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