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It's wicked to wish to run a ship after her frame has worked loose, and nothing now fastens me to life but you. I own it's hard to part, and my mind has had some weakness on the matter. However, Miles, my dear boy, for boy you are still in my eyes, there is comfort in looking ahead. Go by your wife's rules, and when the v'y'ge is up, we shall all find ourselves in the same haven."
"I have thought this matter over, Gar'ner, with all my mind have dreamt of it slept on it had it before me at all hours, and in all weathers; and, look at it as I will, it is full of difficulties. Will you agree to take in a half-cargo of my skins and iles next season, and make in all respect? a joint v'y'ge of it; from home, home ag'in, if we'll consent to let this craft be burned?"
I ain't ever been so busy in my life as I be in this store 'nless it was when I shipped a menagerie for a feller at a Dutch Guinea port and his monkeys broke out o' their cages when we was two days at sea and they tried to run the ship. "That was some v'y'ge, as the feller said," continued Cap'n Amazon, getting well under way as he lit his after-breakfast pipe.
But the land-fall that I mean is a different sort of thing; being, as you well know, what we say when we come in sight of land, a'ter a v'y'ge; or, meaning the land we may happen first to see.
Well, well! we must take the bad with the good in every v'y'ge; and the only serious objection that an old seafaring man can with propriety make to such an event is, that it should happen on this bit of d d fresh water."
And warn't I," continued he, "nineteen days alone in an open boat in the South Atlantic; and didn't I make a v'y'ge of a thousand miles in her afore I struck soundings at Saint Helena?"
As for your friend in t'other watch, it's all as it should be; the captain has got one hand the most, and such as he is, he is welcome to him. He'll blacken more writing paper this v'y'ge, I reckon, than he'll tar down riggin'." I thought it odd, however, that Rupert, who had been so forward in all the preliminaries of our adventure, should fall so far astern in its first practical results.
Then she was as clean as a new pin, and dressed up as though she was going out to tea. "Oh, you're Alfred, I s'pose?" she ses, looking at 'im. "Mr. Simms is my name," ses young Alf, starting and drawing hisself up. "I know you by your portrait," ses the 'ousekeeper. "Come in. 'Ave you 'ad a pleasant v'y'ge? Wipe your boots." Alfred wiped 'is boots afore he thought of wot he was doing.
Rose fancies that her aunt is out of sorts, and that the v'y'ge is tried on her account but the aunt, the cunning thing, knows all about it." Mulford almost nauseated the expression of his commander's countenance while Spike uttered the last words.
She was a full-rigged ship, called the Minerva, but she was getting old and leaky. I meant it should be my last v'y'ge in her, and so it proved. She had been an excellent vessel in her day. Of the cowards aboard her I can't say so much." "Then you were wrecked?" I asked, as he made a long pause. "I wa'n't caught astern o' the lighter by any fault of mine," said the captain gloomily.
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