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"I've heard of ghosts ashore, and sometimes on board of a ship, but I never heard of a ghost in a jolly-boat," said Coble, spitting under the gun. "Specially when there were hardly room for the corporal," added Spurey. "Yes," observed Short. "Well, we shall know something about it to-night, for the corporal and I am to have a palaver." "Mind he don't circumwent you, Jimmy," said Spurey.
A general cheer greets the widow as she is led into the room by the corporal for she had asked many of her friends as well as the crew of the Yungfrau, and many others came who were not invited; so that the wedding day, instead of disbursement, produced one of large receipt to the happy pair. "Now then, corporal, you must open the ball with your lady," cried Bill Spurey. "Mein Gott, yes."
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.
The corporal put his hand up to the salute, and Vanslyperken shook his head with a diabolical expression of countenance. "Now where the devil could he come from?" whispered Spurey. Coble shrugged up his shoulders, and Short gave a long whistle expending more breath than usual.
"But then, you know, he'll haunt us just as much as ever we shall see him here just the same." "A spirit is only a spirit," observed Smallbones; "he may live in the cabin all day and night afore I care; but, d'ye see, there's a great difference between the ghost of a dog, and the dog himself." "Why, if the beast ar'n't natural, I can't see much odds," observed Spurey.
"Well, I've no notion of being boxed up here," observed Coble, "they can't be so many as we are, even if they were stowed away in the boat, like pilchards in a cask. Can't we get at the arms, corporal, and make a rush for it?" "Mein Gott! de arms are all in the cabin, all but three pair pistols and the bayonets." "Well, but we've handspikes," observed Spurey.
"And mine too," added Obadiah Coble, "being as we are, as you know, at peace with all nations, to be boarded and carried in this way." "Why, what, and who can they be?" "I've a notion that Vanslyperken's at the bottom of it," replied Spurey. "Yes," said Short. "But it's a bottom that I can't fathom," continued Spurey. "My dipsey line arn't long enough either," replied Coble.
"Well, I've no notion of being boxed up here," observed Coble, "they can't be so many as we are, even if they were stowed away in the boat, like pilchards in a cask. Can't we get at the arms, corporal, and make a rush for it." "Mein Gott! de arms are all in the cabin, all but three pair pistols and the bayonets." "Well, but we've handspikes," observed Spurey.
"Well, a perhaps is better than nothing at all," said the lad. "Yes," observed Short. "That depends upon sarcumstances," observed Spurey. "What sort of a breakfast would you make upon a perhaps?" "A good one, perhaps," replied Smallbones, grinning at the jingling of the words. "Twenty dozen tyfels, Smallbones is in de right," observed Jansen, who had taken no part in the previous conversation.
I think you will promise that, my lads," continued Coble, turning to the men. "Yes, we promise that," said the men. Coble then took the crew with him and pulled on shore to the cove, on the margin of which they found all their men lying either killed or wounded. Dick Short, Spurey, and nine others were taken on board: those that were quite dead were left upon the sand.
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