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"I feel able enough to go about, and my mates'll think I'm shirkin' dooty." "There's not a man a-board as'll think that o' Dick Darvall," growled the boatswain, who had just entered and heard the last remark. "Right, bo's'n," said Brooke, "you have well expressed the thought that came into my own head." "Have ye seen Samson yet, sir?" asked the boatswain, with an unusually grave look.
I'll stay nowhere to be both frightened and scouted: the Captain engaged me to weather the sea, not the land, and I'd rather bear the cat a-board the Fire-fly, or even a lecture in the good ship Providence, than be land-lagged any longer."
Peace, Child, peace, the Ladies understand Dueling as little as my self; but, since you are so tender-hearted, Ladies, I'll not shew you my wound; but faith, it spoiled my dancing. My Lord, now you talk of dancing, here's your Baggage brought from a-board the Gally by your Seamen, who us'd to entertain you with their rustick Sports. Guil.
"Well, and now you have found me, what d'ye want with me?" said Bax, finishing the bread and cheese, and applying to the gin and water. "Shipmet, I'm goin' home, and wants a berth a-board the `Nancy," said Bluenose. "Couldn't do it, Captain," said Bax, shaking his head, "'gainst rules." "I'll go as a hextra hand a suppernummerary," urged the Captain.
"Ah, that alters the case," said Bax, "if you choose to take the responsibility on your own shoulders, Guy, you're welcome to the best berth a-board the old `Nancy. D'ye know, I've a fondness for that old craft, though she is about as unseaworthy a schooner as sails out o' the port of London. You see, she's the only craft bigger than a Deal lugger that I ever had command of.
Poor Nigel's felicity was further diluted when he met his father. "We'll have to sleep a-board to-night," said the captain, "for there's a fair breeze outside which seems likely to hold, and the mast has been temporarily rigged up, so we'll have to up anchor, and away by break of day to-morrow." Nigel's heart sank. "To-morrow! father?" "Ay, to-morrow. Business first, pleasure afterwards."
"Despatches for Nelson!" screamed the boy "for Nelson, Nelson, Nelson!" The moon went out. There was one flash of lightning, then horror of darkness. The man's life had shocked to a halt. He did not stir, he did not wink, he did not breathe. Then the blackness lifted, and the moon shone out once more between dark scuds. "Nelson ain't a-board," he said.
The people on the wreck also heard the cheer, and looked eagerly landward. But to them all was shrouded in darkness. Even Guy quickly lost sight of his friend, and was only made aware of his safety and onward progress by the continued running out of the line. Suddenly it stopped. "He's a-board," cried Coleman. "He would jerk on it if he was," said Guy, with a doubtful shake of the head.
The mutineers had hardly set sail, before Captain Cook came "a-Board" Sharp's flagship, finding "himselfe a-grieved." His company had kicked him out of his ship, swearing that they would not sail with such a one, so that he had determined "to rule over such unruly folk no longer."
The evening is closing, and neither of the other ships whose slovenly rigging wants Blake's dressing hae any guns a-board to signify." "Ay," said another, "so much for our near neighbours: what say you to our farther ones, at t'other side the island just at the entrance to the Mersey?" "Say!" said Springall, "why, that they could be round in less than no time if they knew who's who."
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