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"Mein Gott! it was mutiny to flog de officer," said Jansen. "That's very true," observed another. "But Jemmy can't stand against the fat corporal and the six marines," observed Bill Spurey. "One up and t'other down, I'll take them all," observed Jemmy, expanding his chest. "Yes, but they'll all be down upon you at once, Jemmy."
"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." "Now, Coble, we must have yours," said Jemmy Ducks. "Mine! well, if you please: but half my notes are stranded.
Bill Spurey, wet your whistle, and just clear the cobwebs out of your throat. Here's more 'baccy, Short." "Well reeled off, Billy," cried Jemmy Ducks, finishing with a flourish on his fiddle, and a refrain of the air. I don't think we shall meet him and his dog at Fidler's Green heh!" "No," replied Short, taking his pipe from his lip.
"Then why don't he say why?" retorted Bill Spurey, who was still a little suspicious of the corporal's fidelity. "Because Mynheer Vanslyperken count his money de guineas," replied the corporal, writhing at the idea of what he had lost by his superior's interference.
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.
"I don't know, but they've kicked the cur out of the cabin." "Then they've kicked him out too, depend upon it." Thus did the crew continue to surmise during the whole night, but, as Bill Spurey said, the manoeuvre beat their comprehension. One thing was agreed upon, that they should make an attempt to recover the vessel as soon as they could.
"There be odd chops and changes in this here world, for sartin," observed Coble. "Mayn't it all be gammon?" said Bill Spurey. "Gammon, for why?" replied Jemmy Ducks. "That's the question," rejoined Spurey. "It appears to me that he must have had a touch of conscience," said Coble. "Or else he must have seen a ghost," replied Smallbones.
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 wore quite dead were left upon the sand.
"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 ar'n't long enough either," replied Coble.
"So," cried Coble, after the boat shoved off, "liberty's stopped as well as singing. What next, I wonder? I sha'n't stand this long." "No," replied Short. "Stop till he makes friends with the widow," observed Bill Spurey; "she'll get us all leave." "Mein Gott, he nebber say anyting before," observed Jansen. "No; we might almost go and come as we wished. We must not stand this."
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