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"Oh, I see now!" I exclaimed, a light suddenly flashing on me as to his meaning. "I must have fainted away and the doctor told you I was in a comatose state, eh?" "An' isn't that, sure, a comet, sor, as I tould ye!" cried the Irishman, triumphantly. "Hullo, here's Peters, the cap'en's stooard dodgin' about the gangway. I wondther what he's afther?"
Nobody seems to know you are here, an' what's more, nobody seems to care. Your partikler owner ain't turned up yet, an' it's my opinion he won't turn up to-night, so I've spoke to the stooard he's my owner, you know an' he says you'd better just turn into my berth to-night, an' you'll get showed into your own to-morrow." "But where will you sleep?" asked Robin, with some hesitation.
I 'eard all o' wot 'appened, and I tells all my pals. The chief buffer does the same, and so does Number One, so at six bells, when the sick bay stooard 'ad bin sent by Jimmy the One to tell the doctor as 'ow the buoys wus ready for bleedin', almost all the orficers and abart 'arf the ship's company 'ad mustered artside the sick bay under the fo'c'sle to see wot 'appened.
"What makes me think so, stooard?" replied the cook, who was a huge good-natured young man. "Well, I'll tell 'ee.
Dessay I shall be some day. I say, you're in for it. Sure to be pretty rough going down Channel. You'll have the mully-grubs pretty stiff." "Oh! I don't know," I said quietly. "Don't you? Then I do. Oh, Stooard! won't you be bad! Ever seen the sea?" "Lots of times." "But you've never been on it?" "Oh yes, I have." "And been sick?"
There's that Portygee stooard, too, that the cap'an's got sich a fancy for, I'm sure I can't till why, as he's possissed av the timper av ould Nick himsilf, an' ain't worth his salt, to me thinkin'!" "And is that the captain up there now with Mr Mackay?" I asked. "That the skipper? Bless ye, no, me lad that's ownly the river pilot!"
But, now I've got this cable snug, jist you come along o' me, me bhoy, an' we'll say what that Portygee stooard hez lift in his panthry; for I've got no proper mess yit an' have to forage in the cabin."
Moor and I, with the stooard and men, are quite sufficient to manage the affairs o' the brig, and as we shall certainly be here for a considerable time to come, I've made up my mind to give you a holiday.
"Eh?" said old Jaskett, over his pannikin of tea. Quoin repeated his remark. "'oo says so?" inquired Plummer. "I 'eard it from ther Doc," answered Quoin, "'e got it from ther Stooard." "'ow would 'ee know?" asked Plummer. "I dunno," said Quoin. "I 'spect 'e's 'eard 'em talkin' 'bout it arft." Plummer turned to me. "'ave you 'eard anythin', Jessop?" he inquired. "What, about shortening down?"
Then there came another yell, an' another, an' half a dozen more, which was followed by another flash o' lightnin' an' drownded in another roar o' thunder; but the yells from below kep' on, an' came out strong between times, makin' no account whatever o' the whistlin' wind an' rattlin' ropes, which they riz above easy. Now, stooard, do you mean for to tell me that all that signifies nothink?
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