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The Captain's whip came down fast, and the blows started so much dust out of the horse's hide that during the last half of the journey we rode through an impenetrable fog, and ran by a pocket compass in the hands of Captain Fish, a whaler of twenty-six years experience, who sat there through the perilous voyage as self-possessed as if he had been on the euchre-deck of his own ship, and calmly said, "Port your helm port," from time to time, and "Hold her a little free steady so so," and "Luff hard down to starboard!" and never once lost his presence of mind or betrayed the least anxiety by voice or manner.
The Captain's whip came down fast, and the blows started so much dust out of the horse's hide that during the last half of the journey we rode through an impenetrable fog, and ran by a pocket compass in the hands of Captain Fish, a whaler of twenty-six years experience, who sat there through the perilous voyage as self-possessed as if he had been on the euchre-deck of his own ship, and calmly said, "Port your helm port," from time to time, and "Hold her a little free steady so so," and "Luff hard down to starboard!" and never once lost his presence of mind or betrayed the least anxiety by voice or manner.
What good arre ye, annyway?" "Hard to say," said the person addressed; but, thinking hard: "Would you like to see me wag my ears?" Some languid interest was manifested in this accomplishment, but it fell rather flat after Potts' splendid achievements with the euchre-deck. "No, ye ain't good fur much as an enthertainer," said O'Flynn frankly.
For we're ahl jolly fellows wheriver we go Ogedashin, den thashin, na boneen sheen lo!" Potts was called on. No, he couldn't sing, but he could show them a trick or two. And with his grimy euchre-deck he kept his word, showing that he was not the mere handy-man, but the magician of the party.
It is said that Euchre-deck Billy, working in the gulch at the crossing, never saw Miss Folinsbee pass but that he always remarked apologetically to his partner, that "he believed he MUST write a letter home."
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