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He gave some of the particulars of the capture of the Teaser, and mentioned the name of Lonley, who had told him that Colonel Passford had offered him the command of a schooner he had loaded with cotton to run the blockade; but the planter said nothing to indicate that he had ever heard of the privateersman.
"Dangerous work this, for you, sir," cried Long Jerry. "You'd all better remained indoors. It's come a whole lot quicker than I expected. We're in for a teaser, Mr. Cameron. Couldn't scarce make out the path through the woods." "Have you seen the girls, Jerry?" cried Tom Cameron. "Bless us!" gasped the tall guide. "You don't mean that any of them gals is out of bounds?"
"When I have lifted the steamer four feet, she can go through the sound, for I have taken a boat through that drew six feet. With your men to help me, I shall get the casks down by midnight, and then all we have to do is to go ahead," continued the enthusiast. "Precisely so; and the Teaser is a screw steamer," added Christy. "Of course she is; you have known her for two months, Gilder."
"The new moon should clear most of it up," he said; "but you've given us a teaser this time, little 'un." The new moon should have cleared everything up if we could have seen it, but the Wet coming on in force again, we saw nothing till Thursday evening, when it was too late to calculate with precision.
"Mr Barkins, allow me to assure you, sir, that the dishipline of the marines on board this ship is above reproach." "Yes, sir. Of course, sir. I only thought that, after being on board the ship so long, sir, they might be tempted, sir." "I hope that the men of Her Majesty's gunboat Teaser are above all temptations, Mr Barkins," said the lieutenant harshly.
Later on, as the wind subsided, the schooner, having shown her mettle, settled once more into her stride and flew along like a ghost. Then, for the first time since the storm had begun, the captain laid aside his oil-skins and relaxed. "That was a fierce blow," chuckled Tyke. "A little more and you might have called it a hurricane." "It was a teaser," asserted the captain.
"No one could be more so, sir," replied Christy with proper enthusiasm. "I can fully indorse this opinion of Mr. Passford," added Captain Blowitt. "In the capture and bringing out of the Teaser, Mr. Flint was the right hand man of the leader of the enterprise."
"Then I will hear you before you anchor the Teaser," said the captain, leading the way to his cabin. The lieutenant narrated the events of his trip across Santa Rosa Island. Captain Breaker was not a little amused at his scheme to get rid of the portion of the crew of the privateer before he captured her.
You've had to do it, Sam." "Yes," said Sam, ruefully; "it's a fair teaser." "And if you write to one and miss another they're offended," continued Bill. "But I always mention all of 'em. I say 'love to Sarah, and 'hope Aunt Jane's cold's better, and that sort of thing, and that fills out a page. But I'm blowed if I can find anything else to say.
The old man thought it over a moment, and then he picked up a coupling pin and went looking for Pierce. He says he will kill him. Pierce has not been out of the house since. This Pierce is the same man that lent us a runaway horse once. Some idiot has invented a "cat teaser" to put on fences to keep cats from sitting there and singing.
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