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I'll twist the head of that swab till he'll have to walk back'ard to see where he's goin'. Whaduz he wave his arms for whaduz he yell like a dam' philly-loo bird for? What's him say, Charlie?" "Jim heap sing, no can tell. Mebbee tinkum sing, come back chop-chop." "We'll see. Oars out, men, give way. Now, son, put a little o' that Yale stingo in the stroke."
"You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar. You told my father how I spent the money." "Well, and what if I did? I had to look after myself, I suppose. You forget that I am only here on sufferance, whilst you are the son of the house. It does not matter to you, but he would have turned me out of doors," whined George. "Oh! curse your fine words; it's you who forget, you swab.
He was now seeking, with varying emotions, both the girl and the swab. I suggested the dock and his ship would be a better quest. No, it was no good, he said. He tried that late last night. Both had gone. The policeman at the gate told him so.
"You have allowed the waste to run into the tunnel again, and my cabin is flooded." "Well, clean it out then!" "I think that is your business," answered the dry cutting tones from above. "Come up at once, and see to it." "I'm not going to swab out your blasted, dirty old cabin," shouted Marley hoarsely from the bottom of the shaft. "Do it yourself." A strange look came over Talbot's quiet face.
Then Bob, by the mercy of the Lord, like Peter, found them guineas in the corner of his swab some puts it round their necks, and some into their pockets; I never heard of such a thing till chaps run soft and watery and so we come to this here place to change the air and the breeding, and spin this yarn to your honor's honor, as hath a liberal twist in it; and then to take orders, and draw rations, and any 'rears of pay fallen due, after all dibs gone in your service; and for Bob to tip a stave in the Minister."
While in this position two smacks came so near to the Evening Star, on opposite sides, that they seemed bent on running her down. David Bright did not concern himself, however. He knew they were well able to take care of themselves. They both sheered off to avoid him, but after doing so, ran rather near to each other. "One o' them b'longs to the Swab," said Billy.
"Take that, you swab," cried Joe Basalt, dashing his fist in his face. "They are greater curs than yourself," yelled Hunston; "such witnesses would swear away your own life for a glass of grog witnesses indeed " He stopped short. His glance fell upon two forms standing close by young Jack and Harry Girdwood. Both were dressed as he had last seen them in the mountain haunt of the brigands.
"I know him, sir, now, though I didn't when he first came aboard with his crowd o' bloody cannibals. But when you give him that knock-out lift under the jaw the other day, me and Sam Button, you will remember, helped him down into the cabin and laid him in his bunk, hopin' the swab was dead.
If I stand in the dock you'll stand there, too, and I'm not the man to say the word that'll save you." "But she's with her aunt. She's under age. Her aunt is her legal guardian. I know a bit about the law, you see. This notion of yours is a bird of another color. Sham weddings are no joke. It will mean ten years." "Who wants you to go in for a sham wedding, you swab?"
The C.O. brought a fist like a leg of mutton down on the table. "Before the division leaves the line, we are going to visit the Hun; we are going to kill the Hun; we are going to capture the swab, to wound him, to out him; and when we've done it and got him as wild as a civet cat in the nesting season, we'll laugh at him by platoons."
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