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Suddenly, Hal Smith, one of the other lads, said, "Here, Whatman, I'll fetch it this time, same as I have before, and we'll make him have a drink, and that will put a stop to his teetotal whining." Seizing the jar and looking out cautiously to see that the coast was clear, he hurried off, while Whatman, muttering angrily, turned away.
"Now, young sir," said Whatman, with mock politeness, "you'll drink best respects to us in this here cup of beer. Every drop, mind! What, you won't have it? Here, Smith and Perkins, hold his head while I pour it down. He's got to learn manners!" Dick struggled violently in his captors' hands and almost got free. But the men were too strong for him, and he was held fast.
In affright Whatman darted round the office, to be instantly taken possession of by the second man, while policeman X. ran forward and caught the stranger, who was just emerging from the window with a slim roll of papers in his hand. "Well caught!" said the man in plain clothes, as he slipped the handcuffs on. "You young spoil-sport, so this is your doings!" said Whatman vindictively.
"What is going on here?" said a stern voice in the doorway. Instantly the men closed round the jar, hoping to hide it, but Macleod, the Scotch foreman, was not easily hoodwinked. "Drinking and fighting too. What do you mean by it?" "It's this young rascal here," said Whatman. "Cheeking us and drinking our beer." Dick was too dazed to answer, but there was no need.
"I'll do anything for you that's right, but I can't do that," he said bravely. "I'll never go into a public-house, and the rules are up there as plain as can be." And he pointed to the glazed and somewhat dingy copy of rules and regulations on the wall. "You young impudence, I'll teach you!" said Whatman in ungovernable rage.
Burney says that two launch-loads for each ship were obtained, "a seasonable supply, as we had been four months since we wooded." On 31st January Whatman, one of the gunner's crew, and greatly attached to Cook, died and was buried in the Morai.
For the time Whatman and the other men were silenced, but Dick had a black eye, as the result of the blow, and the reason had to be told when he went to Mr. Dainton's that evening to tea. For Teddy had come home from his visit to the country, and Dick was eager to see the brother of whom little Nellie talked so much.
That's why Dick here has to begin at the very bottom and do all sorts of black work before he can be a great engineer and come out at the top of the tree." "And must he have black eyes as well?" asked Nellie pointedly; "and have his face spoiled?" "No, little one, that is another matter. Whatman ought to be sent about his business and should be, if I had the management.
So he looked up bravely and said, "I can't do that, for it would be breaking the rules to fetch beer. Besides, I can't go inside a public-house, at any time. "Rules be hanged!" said Whatman fiercely. "You are here to do as you're told and not to cheek your betters. Quick! Off with the jar, or it'll be the worse for you." But Dick stood still, while the thought of Lionheart gave him courage.
And with tears and smiles together the child clung to her father and hugged the almost suffocated kitten in her pinafore. "Jem Whatman, at your cowardly pranks again! How dare you touch the kitten?" At this moment, as if conscious that able reinforcements had come, Pat let go the mouthful of cloth, and without stopping to reply Jem darted away after his companion, muttering threats as he went.
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