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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Why, it's more than twenty years ago, Bowling, since we were in the old Blazer together." "Aye, I knows that, Cap'en Mordaunt," replied father, in his dry way; "an' I knows, too, that there's many a youngster o' yer own standing as ain't got further than liftenant yet, sir! It's only the smart officers like yerself that gits promoted."
As for the main hatch, that was covered with a sail. "Good morning, cap'en," said the leader of the natives, a tall, handsome old man about fifty. "Where you come from?" "From California," answered Martinas, making a sign to one of his officers, who slipped away down to the main deck. "What you come here for, sir?" resumed the native amiably; "you want fowl, pig, turtle, eh?"
Whispers ran through the kirk; the cap'en nudged McNab. "McCakeron must ha' swung all the Duncanites?" "Ah," Neil muttered. "An' that wad account for the stiff look o' the reptile. See the glare o't." They would have stiffened in astonishment could they have translated the "glare." "Got the Duncanites, did ye?" the elder was thinking. "Bide a wee, bide a wee! He laughs best that laughs last."
One day the black nurse got out of the dingy for a moment, when the baby was asleep, leavin' him alone with it. An idea took hold on him, jest from cussedness, you'd say, but it was partly from revenge on the cap'en and partly to get away from the ship. The ship was well in shore, and the current settin' towards it. He slipped the painter that man and set himself adrift with the baby.
"That's jolly!" exclaimed Bob, brightening up at the prospect of some sort or any sort of expedition in lieu of the one he had missed. "May I come with you?" "Ees, sure-ly, Master Bob," returned Dick. "But how comes it you bain't a-gone wi' the Cap'en and t'others?" Bob did not like any allusion to this delicate subject. "I was too late," he said abruptly, changing the conversation at once.
"That's right, O'Neil," said the skipper, seeing his motive in trying to set our sad guest at his ease and to try and distract his thoughts from the awful anxiety and grief, under which he was labouring. "Have I heard the yarn before, eh?" "Faith, not that I know of, cap'en," returned the doctor pro tem in his free and easy manner.
They seemed to close in on him, and by the sound he judged the cap'en was just abreast of him in the gig, bearing down upon him in the fog. He slipped out of the dingy into the water without a splash, and struck out for the breakers. He got ashore after havin' been knocked down and dragged in four times by the undertow.
Jee-rusalem! but she wer goin' to have the cap'en up on court-martial, an' the steward tarred and feathered, an' the Lord knows what! Then, too, ther wer that b'y of hern, squalling like a frog in a fit, the durned young imp, I'd lief have skinned him!
"He scramed out `Bad cess to ye' whin he saw the ugly pirate cap'en fall, an' sure, that wor as sinsible as a Christian." Everybody had got off pretty well, the majority only having a few slight scratches and flesh wounds; all, save, of course, the three of the hands who had been killed on deck in the first attack, and poor Mr Saunders, who, Tim said, was sinking fast.
"Now, me bhoys, altogether," cried Garry O'Neil, looking over the top of the booby-hatch over the companion-way, "three cheers for the cap'en, horray!" "Horray!" roared the lot below with a kindred enthusiasm, "Horray! Horray!"
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