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Updated: June 23, 2025
One time I wuz cut off from de regiment, an' 'ported missin' nigh bout fo' months afo' I managed ter git over ter Port R'yal an' 'port fer duty, an' dey gib me money fer rations all dat time. Tell yer, 'Liab, it all counts up. I'se spent a heap 'sides dat." Still Eliab looked incredulous. "You see dat discharge?" said Nimbus, pulling the document from his pocket.
"Don't linger, Larry," shouted Tom Collins. "Ah! thin, it's cruel to tear me away. Good-night to ye, Bow-wow, we'll be back before mornin', ye purty creature." With this affectionate farewell, Larry ran after his friends and followed them down the banks of the tumbling stream towards the `R'yal Bank o' Calyforny, which was destined that night, for a time at least, to close its doors.
"See anything?" asked the Old Man, suddenly observing his attitude. Plummer glanced at him, with a start. "It's ther r'yal, Sir," he explained. "It's all adrift." "What!" said the Old Man. He was standing a few ratlines up the t'gallant rigging, and he bent his body outwards to get a better look. "Mr. Tulipson!" he shouted. "Do you know that the royal's all adrift?"
As I flourished my hand by way of reply to his jeers, he turned away and I heard his harsh, nasal accents uplifted in an order to his crew to "Swing the main-yard; haul aft the jib-sheet; and sway away them t'gallan' and r'yal yards."
Ted stood by with his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, smiling to himself. "Yon's gradely chickens," he remarked presently. "Ye never eat 'em do ye? 'Twouldn't be respectful, I shouldn't think." Margaret vouchsafed no reply. Ted resumed, with bitter sarcasm. "H'm, mich the same as their r'yal namesakes, I reckon kept for show an' no manner o' use to nobry."
Advancing to the rail, the captain whistled in one of the river-boats; then, while the waterman waited, faced his passenger. "Now, yer r'yal 'ighness, wot can I do for you afore you goes ashore?" "I think you must have forgotten," said Kirkwood quietly. "I hate to trouble you, but there's that matter of four pounds." Stryker's face was expressive only of mystified vacuity. "Four quid?
I used to know 'Down went the R'yal George with all her crew complete, and a lot more. Used to say 'em over to myself when I first went to sea and stood watch alone nights. But they were different, you know; they they " "Sure! My wife why, I give you my word that my own wife and her set go perfectly daffy over chaps who write stuff that rhymes and that the papers are printing columns about.
"Wal," said the cookee, solemnly, "if the r'yal Asiatic tiger meanin' Colonel Gid and the great human Bengal meanin' him as is in the wangan get together in this clearin', I think I'd rather see it from up a tree." And the two were only diverted from their breathless discussion of possibilities by the noisy arrival of Gideon Ward, clamoring for his supper.
Then, indeed, "the light of other days" shone again in retrospect on our adventurers with refulgent splendour; then Larry sank the butler, and came out as the miner as one of the partners of the "R'yal Bank o' Calyforny" then Ned and Tom related marvellous adventures, to the admiration of their respective wives, and the captain smote his thigh with frequency and emphasis, to the terror of the cat, and Bill Jones gave utterance to deeply-pregnant sentences, and told how that, on his last voyage to China, he had been up at Pekin, and had heard that Ah-wow had dug up a nugget of gold three times the size of his own head, and had returned to his native land a millionnaire, and been made a mandarin, and after that something else, and at last became prime minister of China so Bill had been told, but he wouldn't vouch for it, no how.
Wilde and his lot can't do nothin' without our help; they can't navigate the ship, and they can't handle her; there ain't one of 'em knows enough to be able so much as clew up a r'yal, or take in the flyin' jib; so if they wants to carry out their plan, they'll have to agree to the same as what we does, d'ye see? And we're willin' to agree to anything reasonable as you may want to propose."
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