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Updated: June 17, 2025
"'Tis no matter!" "All I asks is," quoth the fellow with a quizzical look, "how you've fobbed the nubbing-cheat so long!" "And what I ask is," quoth I, "how a sailor-man comes to know the patter o' the flash coves!" "'Tis no matter," says he, "but since you're o' the Brotherhood sit ye and welcome, 'tis dry enough here in this cave."
These are the front teeth of a savage that my uncle Josiah Abijah killed in the South Sea Islands. Uncle Josiah Abijah always said it was either him or the black man, but I have always felt that it was murder, just the same, and this is the stick of birch-wood that a sailor-man, who came here once to see my mother, killed a bull moose with."
"Unicorns?" ejaculated Lethbridge; "you lucky sailor-man! Surely you do not seriously mean to say that you have bagged any unicorns?" "Four unicorns two males and two females; one lion, and a python. Not so bad for one night's work, is it?
"No," returned the Ancient, shaking his head, "I've seed 'im all blood from 'ead to foot, an' once a gert, big sailor-man knocked 'im sideways, arter which Jarge got fu'rus-like, an' put 'im to sleep " "No, Peter!" added Simon, "I don't think as there be a man in all England as could knock Black Jarge off 'is pins in a fair, stand-up fight." "Hum!" said I.
No reply forthcoming he ran to the window, but there was nobody in sight, and he came back and stood in front of the girl, wringing his huge hands helplessly. It was a great question for a poor sailor-man. If he went for the doctor he deserted his post; if he didn't go his charge might die. He made one more attempt to awaken her, and, seizing a flower-glass, splashed her freely with cold water.
She was in a desperate hurry, knowing that she had no time to waste, and the grasshopper was so suddenly transformed into the old sailor-man, Cap'n Bill, that he had no opportunity to jump off the Scarecrow's shoulder; so his great weight bore the stuffed Scarecrow to the ground.
The going was extremely treacherous and unpleasant he was free to confess to the genial sailor-man after the second breathless turn, and gave that worthy a bright silver dollar upon receiving a further bit of advice: to sit down somewhere out of the wind, sir. Quinnox and Dank were hopelessly bed-ridden, so to speak.
Upon which a sailor-man, who listened to him, shouted out, 'Oh death, where is thy sting? The meeting dissolved in a very tornado of laughter. Sailors have a great sense of humour. It can take the place of a fire on a cold day. One touch of humour makes the whole world kin. If you have a baby, teach it to laugh as well as to walk. But I think your baby will do that readily enough."
"Aye, master," says another, "and that's gospel-true, theer aren't a right sailor-man among 'em " "Then we'll learn 'em to be!" says Penfeather. "Stand forward the new men show a leg and bustle, ye dogs!" Scowling and muttering, some twelve unlovely fellows obeyed. "I' faith!" says Penfeather, looking them over, "Here's fine stuff for the gallows! And where's the rest of 'em?"
We have given the postmaster a hint to have the telegraph office moved down into the village, but I don't know that that will help us much." "So far as regards the wireless," Hamel said, "I rather believe that it is temporarily dismantled. We had a sailor-man over, the morning before yesterday, to complain of his messages having been picked up. Mr.
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