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A tar-pot having been found, Mr Collinson then sent the men below, to fumigate the cabin and the forepeak. "If we do that thoroughly, I trust that we need not fear the fever," he observed. "At all events, let us put our faith in Providence, and pray that we may be preserved." There was no time for any one to be idle on board the brig.
Now upon the scene flared a great blaze, and Stumpy's scowling face appeared at the back of it. He, with readier wit than his fellows, had sought out a tar-pot and lamp; and at the moment his mistress stood defenseless before the impeding steel, the club-footed pirate poured lamp-oil into the tar, and cast the flaring wick on top of all.
He was an elderly man, as first lieutenants of big ships were then, great with the paint-brush and tar-pot, traces of which were continually surprising one's clothes; mighty also in that lavish swashing of sea-water which is called washing decks, and in the tropics is not so bad; but otherwise, while he was one of the kindliest of men, the go was pretty well out of him.
O'Brien would be standing on the boatswain's locker or rope and tar-pot pantry in the vessel's bows with a large old quarto Bible, black with age, laid before her between the knight-heads, and reading aloud to her three meek little lambs.
On his knees upon the deck aft, shoving his holystone to and fro laboriously and unhandily along the planks where the accident with the tar-pot had left its stain, the Dago still broke into little meaningless smiles. For him, at any rate, the narrow scope between the stem and stern of the Anna Maria was not the world.
"Now, Doctor," he said, pointing to the pumpkin, "there is the 'arth, and here is the tar-pot just mark down the position of your island of Leaphigh, if you please, according to the best accounts your academy has of the matter. Make a dab here and there, if you happen to know of any rocks and shoals.
Belfast shrieked like an inspired Dervish: "... So I seez to him, boys, seez I, 'Beggin' yer pardon, sorr, seez I to that second mate of that steamer 'beggin' your-r-r pardon, sorr, the Board of Trade must 'ave been drunk when they granted you your certificate! 'What do you say, you ! seez he, comin' at me like a mad bull... all in his white clothes; and I up with my tar-pot and capsizes it all over his blamed lovely face and his lovely jacket.... 'Take that! seez I. 'I am a sailor, anyhow, you nosing, skipper-licking, useless, sooperfloos bridge-stanchion, you!
He has been at work here since the morning the riggers came on board, and is not afraid to put his hands into the tar-pot, as you can see from his appearance. He has learned a lot from his father, so we won’t have the trouble with him we generally do have with Johnny-raws.”
Three feet away from them in the shade a seaman sat on a spar, very busy splicing a strop, and dipping his fingers into a tar-pot, as if utterly unaware of their existence. When I returned in command of another ship, some five years afterwards, Mr. and Mrs. Falk had left the place.
"Cain Ball!" "Yes, Mister Oak; here I be!" Cainy now runs forward with the tar-pot. "B. E." is newly stamped upon the shorn skin, and away the simple dam leaps, panting, over the board into the shirtless flock outside.
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