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Updated: September 23, 2025
"I tell you it's the birds, Billy. Let's shout together." "That aren't no birds, sir. It's things as it's best not to talk about. Now, look ye here, Mr Mark, sir: I'll run away with you, and fight for you, or do anything you like, sir, or I stands by you till I drops, so don't say I'm a coward." "You are, to be afraid of birds. Ahoy!" Ha ha ha! Wauck! Chuckle chuckle chuckle!
The peculiar duet rang out over the trees a loud and piercing cry and as it died away, Billy caught at Mark's arm, and gripped it tightly; his eyes staring wildly, with the pupils dilating, as from some little distance off on one side there came a mocking "Ha ha ha!" and from the other direction a peculiar hoarse barking croak, which can best be expressed by the word "Wauck!"
"But goblins out here wouldn't understand English," said Mark laughing; but all the same it was rather a forced laugh, for the little sailor's evident dread was infectious. "I wouldn't laugh if I was you, Mr Mark, sir. Come along." "Shout," cried Mark, ashamed of the shadow of cowardice which had begun to envelop him, and he gave forth a loud "Ahoy!" Ha ha ha! Wauck!
"Yes, I heard it, of course," said Mark, fighting hard with his growing alarm, "Ahoy!" Ha ha ha! Wauck! And then the same peculiar low chuckle. "Mr Mark, sir, this is hard on a man," whispered Billy. "I want to run away, sir, but " "Ugh! You coward!" "No, sir, I aren't a coward. If I was I should run, but I can't run and leave you alone, and that's why it's so hard."
But it was only in imagination that he watched, for nature had played a trick upon the lad, and in spite of his determination to keep awake, in spite of his anxiety, had poured her drowsy medicine upon his eyes. For Mark had fallen into as deep a sleep as his companion. Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha! Wauck! Wauck! Wauck!
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