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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Well, they were always grumbling." "Swabs." "I didn't mind that so much, but they were no use, they wouldn't do things. I had to make them go and hunt for firewood, they might just as well have had no hands. Bompard, the oldest one wasn't so bad " "It was the other chap you done in," said Raft. "Well, I reckon you've been through it.
He lunged forward sharply with the gaff, and shouted aloud: "I got him grab holt his tail flippers, you fool swabs; grab holt quick don't you leggo got him there, Charlie? If he gets away, you swine, I'll rip y' open with the gaff heave now heave there there soh, stand clear his nippers. Strike me! he's a whacker. I thought he was going to get away.
Pavlovitch waved a hand towards the sullen mountains of Albania, which were on our right. "Dose Swabs don' tink o' nuttin' but killin'. Jess ornary slaughter, Mister Jim. Sure. Dese peoples don' respect nuttin but killin'; an' when you've done in 'bout fifty other fellers you'r reckoned a almighty tough.
An hour or two we were kept at this work, when the head-pump was manned, and all the sand washed off the decks and sides. Then came swabs and squilgees; and, after the decks were dry, each one went to his particular morning job.
As it was, he managed to get one hand loose, and before the others could seize it again one of their number lay insensible on the ground with his nose broken and flattened against his face. 'Steady, Roy! cried Ken. 'These swabs are no better than Germans. They'll only frog-march us or something equally beastly if we resist. 'But handcuffs! roared Roy in a fury.
In that way we used to make a pretty good thing of it, and we had so much money that we could keep drunk about two thirds of the time. At length some meddling old fool suspected us, and one night we were caught by the police, with a body in our charge. We tried to shake the bloody swabs off, but it was no go.
'Now, then, says he, 'you couple of young swabs, what are ye standing grinning there for, like powder-monkeys in the aguer? What's come over you, ye twin pair of snivelling Molly Coddles? We looked at each other, but we were afraid to speak.
I see you all dive in and took my spy-glass, and see you swimming this way, and when I told Binnacle Bill, he said just what I thought, that you was swimming out to the lugger, and wouldn't do it, and so I took the boat and come to you, and I'm sorry I did now." "Sorry, sir?" I said. "Ay, sorry. You're a set o' young swabs. What's the good of either of you but to give trouble.
"Why can't we give 'em a volley?" murmured "Swabs," gazing at the feathery puffs of smoke on the distant hillside, which looked so innocent, but each of which might mean death to the spectator. No order, however, was given to fire, and the command, "Right turn forward!" put the marksman and his comrades once more in motion.
He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of fresh-water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance. I am in the most magnificent health and spirits, eating like a bull, sleeping like a tree, yet I shall not enjoy a moment till I hear my old tarpaulins tramping round the capstan. Seaward, ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
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