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Kincaid wore an ancient gray slouch hat pulled low over his eyes; and a very old suit of gray clothes, wrinkled and baggy. Somehow, in contrast, his skin showed browner than ever. He looked down at Bobby, the fine good-humour lines about his eyes deepening. "Well youngster," said he, "where's your father?" Bobby's eyes fell; he kicked his feet back and forth. Beneath them lay Mr.
O'Brien came to me on the seventh morning, and said, that if I did not exert myself I never should get well; that he was very fond of me and had taken me under his protection, and, to prove his regard, he would do for me what he would not take the trouble to do for any other youngster in the ship, which was, to give me a good basting, which was a sovereign remedy for sea-sickness.
Don't you see they are very large, and there is plenty of room for the leg-rods, besides leaving a place for the draft and ashes? 'Wal, I swan, if that ain't rather queer. And you made it all out of your head naow? asked the Yankee, looking at the diminutive inventor before him. 'No, I had to use a good deal of iron, was the reply of the youngster, with a quizzical smile.
"Come here, youngster, and make your bow to King Neptune," exclaimed David, seizing me; and, with number of other green hands, I was dragged forward and obliged to bob my head several times to the deck before his marine majesty. "Take 'em below. I'll speak to 'em when I wants 'em," said the king in his gruff voice. And forthwith we were hauled off together, and shut down in the cable tier.
At least, there are you, and we're hoping to see t'other in a few minutes. By the by, Tertius, what sort of fellow is this Burchill?" Mr. Tertius considered his answer to this question. "Well, I hardly know," he said at last. "Of course, I have rarely seen much of Jacob's secretaries. This man he's not quite a youngster, Halfpenny struck me as being the sort of person who might be dangerous."
In the midst of an interested crowd of half a dozen young officers was a youngster in grey cloth, with a mud be-spattered coat, a swollen face, and two bandaged hands. On the table were a coffee-pot, some cups, and biscuits, and a small heap of loot gas masks and bayonets, and such stuff from German dug-outs.
She saw a fresh-complexioned lad, somewhat flushed and red in the face, but of frank and pleasant features; dressed in a three-cornered cocked- hat, blue coat piped with white and gilt-buttoned, white breeches and waistcoat, and broad black sword-belt; a youngster of the sort that loves a scrimmage or a jest, but is better in a scrimmage than in a jest when the laugh goes against him.
Hundreds of voices had sought, in the course of the years, to entice him hither; but in his arrogance he had had no use for spiritual things. What was there here for a smart youngster? And now he was stranded outside! And now he felt a longing for a little care, and he had a feeling that a hand had led him hither. The hall was quite filled with poor families.
He backed off slightly keeping only at half-guard and watching his opponent. "What's the matter, Quimby" called Mr. Ferris. "Can't you go on?" "Yes; I'm going on, to the knock-out!" replied the youngster doggedly. He tried to close in, but was none too steady on his feet. Dan, watching him, readily footed it, merely watching for the youngster to lead out. "Time!"
"I forgot that I had not read the letter. It is rather long. It is from my old friend, Dick Collyer, and a better fellow does not breathe. The tenor of it is that he has got command of a fine frigate, the Doris, fitting with all despatch for sea, and that he will take one of our boys as a midshipman, if we like to send the youngster with him.
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