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The men brought swabs aft, and had cleaned the deck and the ladder down to the cabin door, when Mr Vanslyperken came on board. "Has that woman been here?" inquired Mr Vanslyperken, as he came on deck. "Yes," replied Dick Short. "Did not I give positive orders that she should not?" cried Vanslyperken. "No," replied Dick Short. "Then I do now," continued the lieutenant.
It was a very difficult thing to put it out; water, sand and swabs were tried, and caused long detention and a smoke that threatened flame down to the end of the journey. We thought then, and think now, this is what is the matter with people everywhere. In this swift, "express," American life, we go too fast for our endurance.
Now, hurry, you swabs; no skulking, or I'll freshen your way for you with the end of this fore-brace." And he threateningly threw a coil of stout rope off a belaying-pin by way of hastening the movements of the two men.
I couldn't put in there, for the swabs have got a warrant out ag'in me for putting a charge o' shot into a nigger." "That was a wicked action very wrong, indeed," the merchant said gravely. "You must consider the interests of the firm, Miggs. We can't afford to have a good port blocked against our ships in this fashion. Did they serve this writ on you?" "Another nigger brought it aboard."
Now and again he exchanged a few remarks with "Swabs" or Joe Crouch; and when at length he was told off to join a party of skirmishers, he sprang up and seized his rifle with a sigh of relief. Moving out in extended order to the right front of the zareba, they marched forward a short distance, then halted, and lay down to fire a volley. "Ready, at eleven hundred yards.
It's no good telling her that I haven't; much to my annoyance and amusement she swabs my forehead with eau-de-Cologne, telling me that I shall soon feel better. The streets through which we pass are on the south side of the Thames. It's Saturday evening. Hawkers' barrows line the kerb; women with draggled skirts and once gay hats are doing their Sunday shopping.
"If I'd only stopped to think, instead o' being in such a hurry to do good to others, I should ha' been all right, and the pack o' monkey-faced swabs on the <i>Lizzie and Annie</i> wot calls themselves sailor-men would 'ave had to 'ave got something else to laugh about.
These dragged along after the dredge over the surface of the mud, and entangled the creatures living there multitudes of which, twisted up in the strands of the swabs, were brought to the surface with the dredge. A further improvement was made by attaching a long iron bar to the bottom of the dredge bag, and fastening large bunches of teased-out hemp to the end of this bar.
I can see that, accordin' to his plan, I may stay here all my life and be no better off than I am to-day, 'cause why the harder I and others like me works the better it is for a lot of lazy shirkin' swabs, who've made up their minds that they'll never do a hand's turn if they can help it. And I don't see no fun in workin' for skowbanks like that.
Either the "unmannerly swabs" had not heard him, or they were so utterly lost to all sense of the respect due to their officer as to pay no attention to his polite adjuration, for the song was continued, with some attempt at a chorus. The second mate was not in the habit of speaking twice to those under him, and he did not attempt to do so now.
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