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But those who have been long familiar with men of his country and class must all have heard exactly such words uttered more than once in their experience, and will remember that in some cases at least they were not empty threats, which were afterwards very exactly and conscientiously fulfilled by him who uttered them, and who now either wears a green cap at Ponza or Ischia, or is making a fortune in South America, having had the luck to escape as a stowaway on a foreign vessel.
The forlorn urchin was our office boy, Jimmie Welch. "You young cub, what are you doing here?" I demanded. "I'm a stowaway," he groaned. "Like Hall Hiccup, the Boy Pirate, you know. But, by crickey, I wouldn't a come if I'd a known it would be like this." "Didn't I tell you that you couldn't come? How did you get here?" "Golly, I'm sick! I'm going to die." "Serves you right, you young rascal."
His life, he knew, was already forfeited to the expedition by reason of his having let the stowaway escape and, this being so, he had begged and been granted the favor of risking it in this perilous undertaking.
"I suppose you know that you're a stowaway, that I could have you chucked overboard, or put into irons or something," he said, furiously, his eyes snapping. Dene smiled merely. "Well, now you're here, I'll have to take you on, I guess," said Mr. Bloxford. "You seem to be handy with horses." "I'm fond of them," said Dene. "That's all right," rejoined Mr. Bloxford.
But he took him by the collar behind, and pushed him along to the quarter-deck, where an elderly officer was pacing up and down alone. "Well, Tom," said the captain, stopping in his walk, "what's the matter? Who's that you've got?" "Please yer honour," answered the boatswain, giving Clare a shove, "this here's a stowaway in his majesty's ship, Panther. I found him snug in the cable-tier.
He had disposed of the rest of the booty, and proved to be a stowaway who had been turned out of a Cardiff schooner on Penzance quay, penniless and starving. Nothing further was proved against him, and it still puzzles me how he made his way through the length of Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset, on the not very nutritious spoils of Mrs. Giddy's shop. "For the moment he got clear away.
Wilks, at Fullalove Alley, and on several occasions had the agreeable task of escorting her back home. He cabled to his father for news of the illustrious stowaway immediately the Conqueror was notified as having reached Port Elizabeth. The reply "Left ship" confirmed his worst fears, but he cheerfully accepted Mrs.
The negro stowaway refused stubbornly to leave the steamer, and so was lowered ignominiously in a bowline, and then, as he still objected loudly that he came from Sa' Leone, and was a free British subject, some one crammed a bucket over his head, amidst the uproarious laughter of the onlookers.
No sign that he could see suggested that Popinot had suffered hardship during his two weeks of close sequestration; he seemed to have fared well as to food and drink, and his clothing, if nothing to boast of in respect of cut or cloth, and though wrinkled and stretched with constant wear, was tolerably clean unstained by bilge, grease, or coal smuts, as it must have been had the man been hiding in the hold or bunkers, those traditional refuges of your simon-pure stowaway.
Also how he had suffered severely from hunger and thirst before he discovered himself; and how, notwithstanding his unpopular position as stowaway, he had been fairly treated as soon as he had shown that he was willing to work. And in proof that he was still willing, and had profited by his maritime experience, he offered to sweep the floor of the gymnasium then and there.
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