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"The gale blew out by night, but we lay in smotherin' cross-seas that made the auld Kite chatter from stem to stern. I slowed to thirty-four, I mind no, thirty-seven. There was a long swell the morn, an' the Grotkau was headin' into it west awa'. "'She'll win to Rio yet, tail-shaft or no tail-shaft, says Bell. "'Last night shook her, I said. 'She'll jar it off yet, mark my word.
I believe nothing happened that day, for we were obliged to stay at Grotkau, for want of post-horses, a good part of it." "I hope the news we have here, of the taking of Carthagena, is true," concludes he. Alas, your Excellency! By a different hand, from the southward Hungarian regions, far over the Hills, take this other entry; almost of enthusiastic style:
I turned in there an' then, to young Bannister's bunk, an' slept past expression. I waukened ragin' wi' hunger, a fair lump o' sea runnin', the Kite snorin' awa' four knots an hour; an' the Grotkau slappin' her nose under, an' yawin' an' standin' over at discretion. She was a most disgracefu' tow. But the shameful thing of all was the food.
Hyndford and Ginkel slept that night in Grotkau Town: "at 4 next morning the King sent us word, That if we had a mind to see the Army on march," just moving off, Strehlen way, "we might come out by the North Gate." We accordingly saw the whole Army leave Camp; and march in four columns towards Friedewald, where Marshal Neipperg is encamped. "Not a bit of it, your Excellency!
'She's signallin' to the south of us. Bannister knows as well as I that one rocket would bring the Breslau. He'll no be wastin' fireworks for nothin'. Hear her ca'! "The Grotkau whustled an' whustled for five minutes, an' then there were more fireworks a regular exhibeetion. "'That's no for men in the regular trade, says Bell. 'Ye're right, Mac.
To be sure, young Bannister laid his head on the table an' greeted like a bairn, an' Calder was all for callin' on Steiner at two in the morn an' painting him galley-green; but they'd been drinkin' the afternoon. Lord, how they twa cursed the Board, an' the Grotkau, an' the tail-shaft, an' the engines, an' a'! They didna talk o' superfeecial flaws that night.
After the gale it was cold weather wi' dark nights. "I was in the engine-room on Friday night, just before the middle watch, when Bell whustled down the tube: 'She's done it'; an' up I came. "The Grotkau was just a fair distance south, an' one by one she ran up the three red lights in a vertical line the sign of a steamer not under control. "'Yon's a tow for us, said Bell, lickin' his chops.
From Michelau, Friedrich for his part turns southwestward, in quest of Holstein and other interests; marches towards Grotkau, not intending much farther that night. 'Halt, therefore! Neipperg is evidently pushing towards Ohlau, towards Breslau, though in a leisurely way; there it will behoove us to get the start of him, if humanly possible: To the right about, therefore, without delay!
Aweel, the man got what he wanted, for they went aboard the liner cryin' that the Grotkau was sinkin'. But it's curious to think o' the consequences.
'There's engines, an' rollin' stock, an' iron bridgesd' ye know what freights are noo? an' pianos, an' millinery, an' fancy Brazil cargo o' every species pourin' into the Grotkau the Grotkau o' the Jerusalem firm and the Lammergeyer's bein' painted! "Losh, I thought he'd drop dead wi' the fits.
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