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"They want you to make a speech in the marketplace." "Beg them to excuse me," said the Doctor "with my compliments. I have an appointment at my house a very important one which I may not break. Tell Luke to make a speech. Come along, Stubbins, this way." "Oh Lord!" he muttered as we got out into the open air and found another crowd waiting for him at the side door.
"That's right enough; but it don't tell you nothin'." I made no reply. As Stubbins said, it told you "nothin'." And there I let it drop. Yet, I have told you this, as showing how the matter was regarded in the fo'cas'le. Still, it did not occupy our minds very long; for, as I have said, there were further developments.
But after the matter had been talked over from every side, the Doctor turned to my father and said, "Well now, supposing, Mr. Stubbins, that your son came to me for two years that is, until he is twelve years old. During those two years he will have time to see if he is going to grow tired of it or not.
"Might 'ave been a stowaway, yer know," I heard Quoin, the one who had suggested it before, remark to one of the A.B's named Stubbins a short, rather surly-looking chap. "Might have been hell!" returned Stubbins. "Stowaways hain't such fools as all that." "I dunno," said the first. "I wish I 'ad arsked the Second what 'e thought about it."
Where shall we go?" There were so many places that I wanted to go that I couldn't make up my mind right away. And while I was still thinking, the Doctor sat up in his chair and said, "I tell you what we'll do, Stubbins: it's a game I used to play when I was young before Sarah came to live with me. I used to call it Blind Travel.
"'oo saw it?" he asked. "I saw it!" I said, a bit sharply. "So did Williams; so for that matter did the Second Mate." Plummer relapsed into silence; and smoked; and Stubbins broke out afresh. "I reckon Tom must have had a hold of the foot and the gasket, and pulled 'em hover the yard when he tumbled." "No!" interrupted Tom. "The gasket was under the sail. I couldn't even see it.
And when that didn't seem to work, I went on talking about our preparations for the voyage. "But you see, Stubbins," said he as we rose from the table and Dab-Dab and Chee-Chee began to clear away, "I don't know where to go now. I feel sort of lost since Miranda brought me this news. On this voyage I had planned going to see Long Arrow. I had been looking forward to it for a whole year.
"Look here," he said: "you must get those wet clothes off by the way, what is your name?" "Tommy Stubbins," I said. "Oh, are you the son of Jacob Stubbins, the shoemaker?" "Yes," I said. "Excellent bootmaker, your father," said the Doctor. "You see these?" and he held up his right foot to show me the enormous boots he was wearing.
Tom Stubbins began a lengthy story of an elopement that happened down at the "Carp," where the bride made a rope of the sheets and came down from an upstairs window. Tom was not allowed to finish his narrative, though, for it was felt that the cases were not similar. No one seemed to be particularly anxious to go back and interrupt Mrs. Angus's knitting.
"Why, Captain Stubbins, you've forgotten to send the goods on shore, in return for the produce which came off yesterday!" "Bless my heart! so I have!" answered the skipper, with a hoarse laugh.
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