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"If they lays their hands upon an officer," observed Coble, "it will be mutiny; and then Jemmy calls in the ship's company to protect him." "Exactly," observed Jemmy. "And den, mein Gott, I zettle for de corporal," observed Jansen. "I'll play him a trick yet." "But now, it's no use palavering," observed Spurey; "let's come to some settlement.
The major part of the arms on board were always kept in Mr Vanslyperken's cabin, and that was not only in possession of the assailants, but there was a strong guard in the passage outside which led to the lower deck. "Well, this beats my comprehension entirely," said Bill Spurey. "Yes," replied Short.
Bill Spurey, wet your whistle, and just clear the cobwebs out of your throat. Here's more 'baccy, Short." Short made no reply, but he shook out the ashes, and filled his pipe. The music did not strike up again, so Bill Spurey sang as follows: Says the parson one day, as I cursed a Jew, Do you know, my lad, that we call it a sin! I fear of you sailors there are but few, St.
Many fell, wounded or killed; and Vanslyperken, after shifting about from one position to another, ordered the wounded men to be put into his boat, and with two hands he pulled off as he said to procure more ammunition, leaving the remainder of his detachment on shore, to do as well as they could. "I thought as how this work would be too warm for him," observed Bill Spurey.
Great, indeed, had been the preparations; all the ingenuity and talent of Jemmy Ducks, and Moggy, and Bill Spurey, for he and all the others were now discharged from the hospital, had been summoned to the assistance of the widow and Babette, in preparing and decorating the Lust Haus for the important ceremony, which the widow declared King William himself shall hear of, cost what it might.
Obadiah Coble shrugged up his shoulders, as he took an extra quid Dick Short walked about with lips compressed, more taciturn than ever Jansen shook his head, muttering, "Te tog is no tog" Bill Spurey had to repeat to the ship's company the legend of his coming on board over and over again.
"I say, Coble, I wonder what the skipper will say when he comes on board, and finds that the dog is gone?" "Hoh! hoh!" thought Vanslyperken. "I arn't convinced that he is gone yet," replied Coble. "Smallbones swears that he's settled, this time," replied Spurey. "So he did before," replied Coble. "Smallbones again," thought Vanslyperken. "I'll Smallbones him, if I hang for it."
Vanslyperken was awakened three hours after he had fallen asleep by the noise of the buckets washing the decks. He heard the men talking on deck, and aware that no one knew that he was on board, he rose from his bed, and opened one of the sliding sashes of the skylight, that he might overhear the conversation. The first words he heard were from Bill Spurey.
Their departure was soon ascertained by the crew of the Yungfrau, who now forced the skylight, and gained the deck, but not before the boat had entered the cave. "What's to be done now?" said Coble. "Smash my timbers, but they've played Old Harry with the rigging. We must knot and splice." "Yes," replied Short. "What the devil have they done with Vanslyperken?" cried Bill Spurey.
Anxious to know, he went down the ladder, and, instead of going into his cabin, crept softly forward on the lower deck, when he overheard Coble, Short, and Spurey in consultation. "We shall be in to-morrow," said Spurey, "if a breeze springs up, and then it will be too late: Smallbones must frighten him again to-night." "Yes," replied Short.
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