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"D'ee hear that?" exclaimed Captain Wopper with a startled look, as he and his companions busied themselves packing up their instruments. Antoine Grennon heard it but made no reply. He was familiar with cries of alarm. Turning abruptly he dashed off at full speed in the direction whence the cries came. The Captain and Professor instantly followed; Lawrence overtook and passed them.
Second Boy. She'll have it out on you now, for woppin' of her when she wor a kid. First Boy. She's a wopper herself now. Third Boy. Mighty fine, with your shirt for a great-coat. He! he! he! Fourth Boy. Mattie never kicks us poor innocent boys cos we 'ain't got no mothers to take our parts. Boo hoo! Enter JACK his hands in his pockets. Jack. What's the row, Bill? Bill. Dunnow, Jack.
"Troth, if that's true what ye say, doctor, I hope ye'll see it to be yer duty to give wot ye cut off Gurney's share to me," remarked Briant, "for its nothing but a bag o' bones that I am this minute." "Oh! oh! wot a wopper," cried Jim Scroggles, whose lean and lanky person seemed ill adapted to exist upon light fare.
Captain Wopper accepted the invitation heartily, and thought, though he said nothing, that it was indeed a poor table, seeing that the only food on it besides the very weak tea in the wonderfully small pot, consisted of one small loaf of bread. "Netta," exclaimed Mrs Roby, with a look of surprise, "there's no butter! Go, fetch it, dear."
It therefore became necessary to attach the various members of the party together by means of a rope, which, passing round their waists, with a few feet between each, enabled them to rescue any one who should chance to break through. Thus, in a string, they advanced, and had scarcely proceeded a hundred yards when a surprised "hallo!" from Captain Wopper arrested them.
"What is this?" said Mrs Stoutley, holding the paper gingerly with the tips of her fingers, "Wip Wap Wopper! What is Wopper? Is the person a man or a woman?" The footman, who, although well-bred, found it difficult to restrain a smile, intimated that the person was a man, and added, that he said he had come from California, and wanted to see Mrs Stoutley very particularly.
One of these is, when a rich man wins the hard-earned and much-needed gains of a poor one." "But one is not supposed to know anything about the affairs of those from whom one wins," objected Lewis. "All the more reason," replied Captain Wopper, "why a man should never gamble, lest, unwittingly, he should become the cause of great suffering it might be, of death."
Little Gillie White regarded him with feelings of undisguised awe, astonishment and delight, and was often sorely perplexed within himself as to whether he or Captain Wopper was the greater man. Both were colossal in size and energetic in body, and both were free and easy in manners, as well as good-humoured.
Now, Captain Wopper, you'll stop and have a cup of tea with me. I take it early, you see, in truth, I make a sort of dinner of it, and we can have a talk about William over it. I'm proud to have a friend of his at my table, sir, I do assure you, though it is a poor one."
He was particularly emphatic we might almost say enthusiastic in his expressions of regard for Captain Wopper, expressions and sentiments which the bold mariner heartily reciprocated, and he often stated to Mrs Roby, over an afternoon cup of tea, his conviction that that Roosian Professor was out o' sight one of the best fellows he had ever met with, and that the remembrance of him warmed his heart to furriners in general and Roosians in particular.
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