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He likes the way you cleaned up Miss Hazy an' stood up to Mr. Stubbins." A deeper color than even the fresh air warranted came into Lovey Mary's cheeks, and she walked on for a few minutes in pleased silence. "Don't you want to wear my gloves awhile?" asked Asia. "No; my hands ain't cold any more," said Lovey Mary.
"There are things here, Stubbins," he said as he ended, "which in the hands of skilled druggists will make a vast difference to the medicine and chemistry of the world. I suspect that this sleeping-honey by itself will take the place of half the bad drugs we have had to use so far. Long Arrow has discovered a pharmacopaeia of his own. Miranda was right: he is a great naturalist.
The man who was carrying the lantern, went into the fo'cas'le, and we followed. "Where's ther one, belongin' to our side?" Plummer asked. "Got smashed hupstairs," answered Stubbins. "'ow were that?" Plummer inquired. Stubbins hesitated. "The Second Mate dropped it," I replied. "The sail hit it, or something."
Steam we can produce fast enough from the largest tea-kettle on board; the chief difficulty will be the condenser." When, however, Tom mentioned his idea to Captain Stubbins, the skipper laughed at him, and declared that he could not do it if he tried, as there was no blacksmith on board.
No; we'll wait till the midnight freight comes along, an' when it stops fer water, we'll h'ist Mr. Stubbins into one of them empty cars. The train goes 'way out West somewheres, an' by the time Mr. Stubbins wakes up, he'll be so far away from home he won't have no money to git back." "What'll Miss Hazy say?" asked Mary, giggling in nervous excitement.
To the many eyes that surveyed him from behind shutters and half-open doors he was something of a disappointment. Mrs. Wiggs's rosy anticipations had invested him with the charms of an Apollo, while Mr. Stubbins, in reality, was far from godlike. "My land! he's lanker 'n a bean-pole," exclaimed Mrs. Eichorn, in disgust. But then Mrs. Eichorn weighed two hundred, and her judgment was warped.
No sooner had I followed the Second Mate, than, straightway, Stubbins, Plummer, and Jaskett came up after us at a run. About half-way to the maintop, the Second Mate stopped, and looked down. "Who's that coming up below you, Jessop?" he asked. Before I could, speak, Stubbins answered: "It's me, Sir, an' Plummer an' Jaskett." "Who the devil told you to come now? Go straight down, the lot of you!"
Among us there came a moment of dead silence, and I noticed the wail and moan of the wind aloft, and the flap, flap of the three unfurled t'gallan's'ls. The Second Mate called the next name, hurriedly: "Jaskett," he sung out. "Sir," Jaskett answered. "Quoin." "Yes, Sir." "Jessop." "Sir," I replied. "Stubbins." There was no answer. "Stubbins," again called the Second Mate.
Stubbins struck a match and proceeded to relight his pipe. "How d'yer mean?" he asked, speaking for the first time. "'ow do I mean? Well, I can't say. Maybe 'e jammed 'is fingers between ther parrel an' ther mast." "What about 'is swearin' at ther Second Mate? Was that 'cause 'e'd jammed 'is fingers?" put in Quoin. "I never 'eard about that," said Plummer. "'oo 'eard 'im?
It was quite rusty on the inside. "Dear me, just look at that!" said he. "That's the worst of being away so long. The animals are very good and keep the house wonderfully clean as far as they can. Dab-Dab is a perfect marvel as a housekeeper. But some things of course they can't manage. Never mind, we'll soon clean it up. You'll find some silver-sand down there, under the sink, Stubbins.
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