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As an arguer on the Hebe Maitland his style was airy and gorgeous, contrary to the style of Stevey Todd, who was a cautious arguer, and gingerly. Craney was about forty years old at the time of the Hebe Maitland's loss, and Sadler about the same. There were four of us then, left at Colon, after Craney and Abe had gone. Pretty soon we were badly off.
"It was snowing and drifting," she went on, "and we kept falling into ditches, but at last we saw the light of the hotel by the roadside and were glad." So Billy Corliss had come and bounced at the door, and said he wanted a minister, and quite right he was with respect to those circumstances and Madge McCulloch, as Stevey Todd hinted, though cautiously.
Captain Buckingham paused to fill his pipe again, and Stevey Todd said: "'Intent to deceive and deception pursuant, was my words, and I never give in," and Uncle Abimelech piped up to a crazy tune: "You can arguy here and arguy there, But them that dangles in the air They surely was mistook somewhere, They ain't got good foundations." "Aye," said Captain Buckingham thoughtfully. "It was so.
No hotel piazza could equal the Helen Mar's deck on a warm night, with the old southern stars overhead, when a bunch of mule-drivers maybe would be forward talking, and I and Stevey Todd aft with a couple of Spanish planters, or an agent, or the officers of a warship maybe from England or the States.
Stevey Todd came out of the galley to tell him his mangoes were no good, so as to get up an argument, and Cuco laughed. "Si, senor," he says, "look! Ver' good." Then he nodded towards the shore: "La Sarasara! Oh, la Sarasara!" laughing and holding up his mangoes. The smoke-cap over the Sarasara was blacker than usual and uncommon big it looked to me.
For when Bill was dead, Flannagan and Stevey Todd each wanted to marry Madame Bill, and their notions of it were as different as sharks are different from mud-turtles, Flannagan's notion mainly resembling a shark's, as follows. He says: "Popo," he says, pretty quick, "Bill's off. Here's to him, an' may his ghost weigh two hundred and fifty. I'm on," he says. "Whin shall it be?"
She only said, "Have you seen the thorn-trees on Greffington Edge?" And Ally never answered. She was heading off a stream of jam that was creeping down Stevey's chin to plunge into his neck. "Gwenda's aasskin' yo 'ave yo seen t' thorn-trees on Greffington Edge," said Greatorex. He spoke to Ally as if she were deaf. She made a desperate effort to detach herself from Stevey. "The thorn-trees?
Her statement was she hadn't made up her mind before. Stevey Todd's opinion was that she'd have taken himself, barring Flannagan's laying that stratagem, desperate and unrighteous. On the other hand, Flannagan thought it was predestined on account of his natural gifts. As for me, I had my doubts. But Stevey Todd wouldn't stay with the show after that.
"She was that," said Captain Tom; "the best ship I ever sailed in, barring the Hebe Maitland." Whereat Stevey Todd said, "There was a ship!" and Uncle Abimelech piped up again, singing these singular words: "There was a ship In Bailey's Slip. One evil day We sailed away From Bailey's Slip We sailed away, with Captain Clyde, An old, old man with a copper hide, In the Hebe Maitland sailed, Hooroar!
Stevey Todd here, who was cook, was a Baptist and a Democrat, and the mate he was a Presbyterian and Republican, and the bos'n he was for Women's Rights, and there was a man named Simms, who was strong on Predestination and had a theory of trade winds, but he got to arguing once with a man in Mobile, who didn't understand Predestination and shot him full of holes, supposing it might be dangerous.
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