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Updated: June 3, 2025
"None, particularly, except to naturally increase the worth of my services. I'm not squeamish about stiffs, but I like to know what I am doing. What are you holding on to this other fellow for?" Enright walked nervously across the room, chewing at his cigar, only to come back and face his questioner. "Well, I suppose I might as well tell you," he said almost savagely.
Just keep stallin' around when you get in the stand, 'n' act like you don't know the war's over. "'Furget it, I says. 'I'll show those big stiffs where to head in. I'll hypnotize the old owls. I'll give 'em a song 'n' dance that's right! "As I goes up the steps I see the judges settin' in their chairs, 'n' I takes off my hat.
He promenaded on the poop during his watches on deck, alone, or arm-in-arm with the captain, and just about left the ship to sail herself. No wonder the stiffs commenced to believe they could take liberties; in fact, they could take them in the mate's watch, and get away with it. But they couldn't take liberties in the second mate's watch. You bet they couldn't!
Gibney was obdurate and eventually the Chinaman paid over the money and departed with the remains of his countrymen. "I knew he'd come through, Bart," Mr. Gibney declared. "They got to ship them stiffs to China to rest alongside their ancestors or be in Dutch with the sperrits o' the departed forever after." "Do we have to split this swag with that dirty Scraggs?" McGuffey wanted to know.
Of course I did not pursue beyond the deck-house. His fleeing the battle really pleased me more than knocking him out. I felt sure that such an ignominious defeat would cook his goose with the stiffs. It did. Boston and Blackie stopped grooming Cockney for mob leader; they had seen that he lacked guts in a pinch, and that finished him with them.
He spoke with authority, in a deep, commanding voice, and the squareheads instantly gave him the obedience they had refused the mate. They did not, indeed, tumble aft in the wake of the stiffs; but they did spread out and make a lane through their midst down which Holy Joe advanced with quick and firm step. Right up to Fitzgibbon he walked, and stopped, and said to the bucko's face,
"Oh, please don't talk that way!" broke in Wilhelmina impatiently, "it gives people a bad impression. There isn't a man in Blackwater that isn't firmly convinced that you're nothing but a bag of hot air. Well, I don't care that's just what they said!" "Ahhr!" scoffed Wunpost, "them Blackwater stiffs. They're jealous, that's what's the matter." "No, but don't talk that way," she pleaded.
"I'd rather see a monkey climbing our family tree," said Nan, with a rash irrelevance she hoped might shock him into the reaction of a wholesome disapproval, "than all those stiffs she used to hold up for me to imitate." "Don't!" said Raven involuntarily. "It would hurt her like the mischief to hear you say a thing like that."
Aye, he was a canny brute, was Captain Swope; he knew just how to play such a crowd as we were. And I think he thoroughly enjoyed such a cat-and-mouse game. There was valorous talk in the foc'sle, and half-veiled insolence on deck. These cringing stiffs began to swank and swagger.
My shipmates, sailors and stiffs, had reached a point where they were afraid not to take some violent and illegal action against the men in command of the ship.
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