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"Well, it's very odd," observed Spurey, "that he has been on board nearly half-an-hour, and not discovered that his dog is absent without leave." "Yes," said Short. "I know for why, mein Gott!" exclaimed the corporal, who shook his head very knowingly. "The corporal knows why," observed Jemmy Ducks.
"It's my opinion he'll be for flogging us next, Short," said the old man. "Yes," replied Short. "Shall we allow Jemmy to be flogged?" "No," replied Short. "If it warn't for them 'ere marines, and the lumpy beggar of a corporal," observed one of the seamen. "Pish," quoth Jemmy, who was standing among them. "Won't he make it out mutiny?" observed Spurey.
"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.
Having closed up together, "Come," cried Jemmy, "now that we are quiet again, let's have another song; and who is it to be Dick Short?" "Short, my boy, come, you must sing." "No," replied Short. "Yes, yes one verse," said Spurey. "He never sings more," replied Jemmy Ducks, "so he must give us that. Come, Short."
"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.
"Now for a breeze," said Coble, hitching up his trousers. "Yes," replied Short. "For a regular shindy," observed Spurey. "Hell to pay and no pitch hot," added Jemmy, laughing; and they all remained in anxious expectation of the corporal's return.
He thought that the crew had risen, and that they were about to seize him, but, on the contrary, they passed him and hastened to the taffrail with exclamations of horror. "What! what is it?" exclaimed Vanslyperken, fully prepared for the reply by his own fears. "O Lord! have mercy upon us," cried Bill Spurey. "Good God, deliver us!" exclaimed another.
"Water won't touch him, I sees that," observed Smallbones. "No. Mein Gott, das was to trow time and de trouble away," replied the corporal. "Hanging's just as natural a death for a cur," observed Spurey. "Yes," observed Short. "I'm a-feared that the rope's not laid that's to hang that animal," observed Coble, shaking his head.
"Now, Bill Spurey," said Coble, "you know more about this matter than any one, so just spin us the yarn, and then we shall be able to talk the matter over soberly." "Well," replied Bill Spurey, "you shall have it just as I got it word for word, as near as I can recollect.
"It's my opinion," said Smallbones, "that he must be in real arnest, otherwise he would not ha' come for to go for to give me a glass of grog there's no gammon in that; and such a real stiff 'un too," continued Smallbones, who licked his lips at the bare remembrance of the unusual luxury. "True," said Short. "It beats my comprehension altogether out of nothing," observed Spurey.
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