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Men were crowding it like ants. Close to his feet lay an empty water-cask. It was a crude weapon, but effective when well pitched, and the sailor had never made a better shot for a goal in the midst of a hard-fought scrimmage than he made with that tub for the head of the uppermost pirate. Another volley came from the sands. A bullet ploughed through his hair, and sent his sou'wester flying.
Then he got up. "Where's our water-cask?" he asked in a contained voice. Singleton, without a word, pointed with a big hand that held a short smouldering pipe. Donkin bent over the cask, drank out of the tin, splashing the water, turned round and noticed the nigger looking at him over the shoulder with calm loftiness. He moved up sideways.
Fatima never coveted admission to the dreadful chamber of Bluebeard as I did to ascertain the secrets of this hidden receptacle. One night Fleming had quitted the barge, and I ascended from my dormitory. Marables was on deck, sitting upon the water-cask, with his elbow resting on the gunwale, his hand supporting his head, as if in deep thought.
We had no draught horse, and if we had there was neither water-cask, trolly, nor dray; so we humped it and talk about a drag! By the time you returned, if you had n't drained the bucket, in spite of the big drink you'd take before leaving the springs, more than half would certainly be spilt through the vessel bumping against your leg every time you stumbled in the long grass.
It was useless to reproach him. The whole incident was unforeseen: she was herself a party to it. But what an escape! He lifted her in his arms and carried her to a seat where the tarpaulin rested on a broken water-cask. "You have been a very good little girl and have earned your supper," he said. "Oh, how can you talk so callously after such an awful experience?" she expostulated brokenly.
Having now acquainted myself with the circumference of the lake, and settled a communication with my rill, I began to think of commencing housekeeper. In order thereunto, I set about removing my goods up to the grotto. By constant application, in a few days I had gotten all thither but my two great chests and my water-cask; and how to drag or drive any of those to it, I was entirely at a loss.
There was some danger, too, of their being struck by various articles which were tumbling about in the hold, having broken loose, or been washed up by the water. "See! See!" cried Bill. "Hold up the lantern! Why, that looks like a water-cask!" They waited till the vessel seemed steady for a moment; then, making a rush together, they caught hold of the cask.
The first occasion that presented to speak to my mate offered while we were busy together in the steerage, stowing away our effects, and in making such dispositions as we could to be comfortable. "What think you, Moses, of this Mr. Sennit and his people?" I asked, in a low voice, leaning forward on a water-cask, in order to get my head nearer to that of the mate.
This was a sore disappointment, for I knew my water-cask was nigh emptied; and, indeed, turning up my boat again, I drew out all that remained, and drank it, for I was much athirst.
One of the men stood up, and Elsie, who seized the chance of snap-shotting the party, ran to the upper deck, so she did not overhear Courtenay's smothered ejaculation. He was scrutinizing the savages through his glasses, and he had distinctly seen the ship's name painted on a small water-cask on which the Indian had been sitting. Tollemache made the same dramatic discovery.
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