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"Let's look at this thing from all sides," went on Clay cheerfully. "If we decide by a majority of the voting stock and I'm carryin' enough proxies so that I've got control that you'd ought to have a whalin', why, o' course, there's nothin' to it but get to business and make a thorough job." "Maybe I didn't do right about Maddock's." "No mebbe about that. You acted like a yellow hound."
I s’pose they’ve told you all about Josh, so I needn’t make b’lieve any—but come in—the house looks better inside than it does out." "Ho, Luce," continued he, "where the old boy is your mistress? Tell her thar’s heaps of folks here, and mind tell Aunt Judy to get us up a whalin’ dinner." Here he stopped to take breath for a moment, and then proceeded.
Then a bunch of the old Scarboro's fo'castle hands were about me. Tom Anderly pushed through the group and grabbed my hand. "Here ye be, ye blamed young scamp!" he roared. "Leavin' Mr. Gibson an' me in the lurch in Buenos Ayres." "And ye missed some of the greatest whalin' ye ever see," burst in the stroke oar of our old boat. "We got smashed up complete once and lost boat and every bit of gear.
An' I've seen the time myself when I was hi-mighty glad I'd l'arned to count stitches. "Land sakes! Some o' them whalin' v'y'ges lasted three-four years. Cap'n Am'zon was in the old bark Neptune's Daughter when she was caught in the ice and drifted pretty average close't to the south pole. "You know," said Cap'n Abe reflectively, "the Antarctic regions ain't like the Arctic. 'Cause why?
But she only said: "When he DOES come back, you just give him a whalin', will ye?" and vanished into her kitchen. The master rode away, half ashamed of his foolish concern for the derelicts. But he determined to try Smith's father, who owned a small rancho lower down on a spur of the same ridge.
Hugh held up a hand commanding silence and rolled out his Irish with gusto: "'Th' longer th' wurruld lasts th' more books does be comin' out. They's a publisher in ivry block an' in thousands iv happy homes some wan is plugging away at th' romantic novel or whalin' out a pome on th' typewriter upstairs. A fam'ly without an author is as contemptible as wan without a priest.
Says she, 'Where's me hoosband? in a German brogue ye cud cut with an ax. 'I don't know ye'er husband, ma'am, says I. 'What's his name? She told me, an' I seen she was Casey's wife; 'He's in there, I says. 'In back, I says, 'talking to Doolan, th' prolotoorio. I wint back with her, an' there was Casey whalin' away. 'Ar-re ye men or ar-re ye slaves? he says to Doolan.
There never was no cannibals on the coast o' Maine. All the Indians o' these regions are tame-looking folks." "Sakes alive, yes!" exclaimed Mrs. Fosdick. "Ought to see them painted savages I've seen when I was young out in the South Sea Islands! That was the time for folks to travel, 'way back in the old whalin' days!"
"Wal, I declare, I'm glad to see yeh!" said he, as he grasped my hand. "I'd a'most forgot yeh, till Mr. Elkins told me you remembered my whalin' them Dutch boys at a scale onct." I had had no recollection of him; yet form and voice seemed vaguely familiar. I assured him that my memory for names and faces was excellent. After being duly presented to Mrs. Barslow, he urged us to alight and come in.
Yes, sir! Water does get stringy sometimes on long v'y'ges. It useter on whalin' cruises get all stringy and bad; but after she'd worked clear she'd be fit to drink again. "But this time in the Mary Bedloe it was something mysterious happened to the drinking water. Made the hull crew sick. Cap'n Jim Braman was master. He was a good navigator, but an awful profane man.
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