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"Musha! but it'll make me mouth wather all the afthernoon thinkin' of it," said Quin, on finishing his second plateful. "It's prime wittles," remarked Tips, as he helped himself to more. "Now, Barret, have you finished?" asked Mabberly. "No; why?"
Everything 'most is cruel; but if they wasn't the world would get so full that everything would starve. We've got say fourscore pie-wipes not for fun, but for wittles and what's fourscore when there's thousands upon thousands all about?" "Why, Dave, you're a philosopher!" said Dick, who felt relieved.
This'll do for the furness we want. Nothin' more needed than to pour the sparmacety into it, chuck a bit o' oakum on the top, an' set all ablaze. Let's do it, and cook the wittles at once." The cavity, which Snowball had "crowed" in the carcass of the whale was soon filled with oil taken from the case.
For was it not," said Joe, with his old air of lucid exposition, "that my only wish were to be useful to you, I should not have had the honor of breaking wittles in the company and abode of gentlemen." I was so unwilling to see the look again, that I made no remonstrance against this tone. "Well, sir," pursued Joe, "this is how it were.
I'll get a mouse-trap in a minute, And bait with cheese that's smelly To bring him helter-skelly That little empty belly, And then I'll have him in it. Where have he hid, That little kid, That good old Jacob was so kind to? And when a rest I am inclined to Who'll boil the cow and dig the kittles And milk the stockings, darn the wittles? Who mugs of tea Will drink with me?
But no alluring pictures of the delights of seafaring life, or the pleasures and excitements of the whale-fishery, had the least effect on their sable companion. Even sundry shrewd hints, thrown out by Phil Briant, that "the steward had always command o' the wittles, and that his assistant would only have to help himself when convanient," failed to move him.
Indeed, I think I will enjoy my wittles more, now that an honest grace can be said over 'em. An' when you read the Bible, you needn't read the cussin' parts, if yer don't want to. I'll read 'em to myself hereafter. I'll give you all the leeway that an old curmudgeon like myself kin; and I expect to take a sight o' comfort in seein' you goin' on your way rejoicin'."
"Lads says, sir," he began respectfully, "that if it were all the same to you they'd like me to pipe down to dinner." "Of course," said Gregory. "Where are the provisions?" "Well, you see, sir, when we all come running down, the bags o' wittles was chucked away in the jungo in the wood, sir." "Then a couple of men must go after it those who threw it away."
If you're hard up for wittles in the meantime, just grin and bear it; you'll not die, you know, you'll only get thinner. I have heard that a bit o' boiled shoe-leather ain't a bad thing to keep one easy till relief comes." "Dear me!" exclaimed Mr Auberly in the distance, and bustling back as lie spoke; "I quite forgot; how stupid of me! I was directed by my daughter to give you this."
The skipper himself spent half the night with the steward, packing provisions, Joe Cross helping, for though he was to be coxswain of the boat, he said he came in there, for after the cook he held that he knew more about cooking "wittles" than any fellow in the ship, and this was acknowledged without dissent, though one of the men did say that Joe Cross took more than his share, since in addition to other duties he had the canisters of gunpowder in charge.
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