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"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.
"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 ar'n'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."
"And here I go," exclaimed Smallbones. "I defy the devil and all his works as we said on Sunday at the workhouse." "That lad's a prime bit of stuff," observed Spurey, "I will say that." "Yes," replied Short. In a few seconds Smallbones came hastily up the ladder. "Corporal, you must go to the cabin directly.
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 should hear of, cost what it might.
"He can't be much of a devil now," observed Bill Spurey; "for what's a devil without a tail? A devil is like a sarpent, whose sting is in his tail." "Yes," replied Short, who had looked on in silence. "But, I say, Moggy, perhaps it's as well for him not to find you on board." "What do I care?" replied Moggy.
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.
Now I'll just go down and see if my bag be to be found, and then I'll dress myself like a Christian." The cutter flew before the breeze, which was on her quarter, and now that the hanging was over the females came on deck. One of the Jesuit priests was a good surgeon, and attended to the wounded men, who all promised to do well, and as Bill Spurey said
"Suppose you bury de dog, de dog body not get up again. Suppose he will come, his soul come, leave him body behind him." "That's exactly my notion of the thing," observed Smallbones. "Do you mean for to bury him alive?" inquired Spurey. "Alive! Gott in himmel no. I knock de brains out first, perry afterwards." "There's some sense in that, corporal."
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.
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.
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