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Everybody on board had, therefore, ample work to do; besides which the prisoners in both ships had to be watched. Several had been allowed to remain on board the prize to assist the surgeons in attending to the wounded men. An eye had also to be kept on them. Mr Saltwell sent for Bill, who had returned to the Thisbe.
The Thisbe had been several weeks at sea, and had during that time captured, without firing a shot, three of the enemy's merchantmen, which she had sent into Plymouth, the more pugnacious of the crew grumbling at not having encountered an enemy worthy of their prowess, and which would have afforded them a larger amount of prize-money.
Somehow, she struck my imagination more than any of these others more than Count Deym, more than Mr. Balfour, more than the lovely Lady Thisbe Crowborough. 'I might have had a ducal vehicle all to myself, and should have liked that; but it seemed more correct that I should use my bicycle. On the other hand, I didn't want to ride with all these people a stranger in their midst.
Still it was generally believed among the Hurlston people that Lieutenant Castleton and Jacob Halliburt had been lost at sea, and sometimes it was reported that the Thisbe herself had gone down with her gallant commander, Captain Headland, and all hands.
Trim sails, my lads!" The men flew to the braces. The canvas blew out, and the frigate began slowly to move towards her antagonist. The crew of the Thisbe stood at their guns, ready to open fire at the word of command.
The spoilers tempt no second blow; They fawn on the proud feet that spurn them as they go." Pyramus was the handsomest youth, and Thisbe the fairest maiden, in all Babylonia, where Semiramis reigned. Their parents occupied adjoining houses; and neighborhood brought the young people together, and acquaintance ripened into love. They would gladly have married, but their parents forbade.
Rapidly the gale abated, the ship no longer laboured as before, the leak was easily kept under, the sea quickly went down, the wind got round to the southward, and by nightfall the "Thisbe," under all sail, was steering a course for England. In vain Lieutenant Calder and the prize crew of the "Concorde" attempted to resist the onslaught of the enemy.
"She was in the first-cabin," said Jimmy. Mifflin clutched his forehead. "Wait!" he cried. "This reminds me of something something in Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet? No. I've got it Pyramus and Thisbe." "I don't see the slightest resemblance." "Read your 'Midsummer Night's Dream. 'Pyramus and Thisbe, says the story, 'did talk through the chink of a wall," quoted Mifflin. "We didn't."
The Frenchmen were allowed to lie down on deck between the guns, with sentries placed over them. It was very evident that, had they chosen to rise, they might have overpowered the sentries at the cost of a few of their own lives. Fortunately none of them liked to run the risk of being shot, and remained quiet. The wind was light, and the Thisbe and her prize made but slow progress.
Where a body of disciplined men labour with a will, a large amount of work can be done in a short time; and thus, before night set in, we had the Thisbe fitted for sea, provisioned, stored, and watered. We shipped, likewise, four light guns, and a supply of small-arms and cutlasses, that we might make sure of mastering the pirates, in case the plan of taking them by surprise should miscarry.
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