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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Not know me! well but you are only joking, General Cheeks!" The surrounding officers began to be very much amused, and the port-admiral became extremely eager in his attention. "Tell ye, don't know ye, younker," said my gentleman, folding his arms, and attempting to look magnificent and strange. "Well, that is cool.
Nevertheless, the two shook hands with seeming cordiality, and the new-comer looked inquiringly at Jack. "This is a friend of mine, Bill, that I took out on a hunt t'other day with another younker; Jack Dudley, Bill Tozer." "Glad to know you," said the man heartily; "I see you're a tenderfoot." "Yes," replied Jack; "less than two weeks ago I had never set foot in Wyoming."
"Jim," says he, "I reckon we're fouled, you and me, and we'll have to sign articles. I'd have had you but for that there lurch; but I don't have no luck, not I; and I reckon I'll have to strike, which comes hard, you see, for a master mariner to a ship's younker like you, Jim."
"Come, younker, let you and I have a glass cosy together," said Jerry to the midshipman, who, frightened at what was going on, moved his chair a little further from Jerry, and then looked first at him and then at the captain. "Oh, pray take a glass with the young gentleman," said Captain Bradshaw, with mock politeness.
When I were a younker, just joined his Majesty's forty-two-gun frigate " "Stow that, Tomkins. No time now. I remember all about it, and very good it is. Let us have it all again when this job is done with. Bowler and Donovan will pick holes if they can, after waiting for us half a day. Not a word about our slow sailing, mind; leave that to me. They are framptious enough.
In the country where she was brought up and known, to say of another, that he or she could compete with Ben Younker's wife in talking, was considered the extreme of comparison; and it is not recorded that any individual ever presumed on the credulity of the public sufficient to assert that the vocal powers of the said Mrs. Younker were ever surpassed.
They were picking their way along as best they could, when they struck a small stream, when the scout paused so suddenly that his comrade inquired the cause. "That's quar, powerful quar," he said looking down at the ground and speaking as if to himself. "One horse has been 'long har, and I think it war mine, and that he had that younker on his back." "Which way was the young spalpeen traveling?"
As Isaac approached, he raised his eyes from the ground, turned them full upon him, and then, taking a step forward, said, in a voice tremulous with emotion: "Thank God! Isaac Younker, I am able to behold you once again."
"Younker," he said, when the conversation had continued a while longer, "after thinking over this bus'ness, I've made up my mind it's better we should keep apart fur the day." "Follow your own judgment. I shall try to be back this evening." "To-morrer morning will be time 'nough.
"I s'pose ye feel me and you had trouble, and you got the best of it?" leered the former foreman, then scowled. "But listen to me, younker. Ye're going to run into trouble, and quicker than ye think, at that. That old cigar shaped death-trap won't float not for long, anyway. All I'm hoping is that ye'll go in for bein' one of the crew of that submarine boat.
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