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"You don't say so, sir!" said Mivins in surprise. "And don't they never melt?" "No, never. What they lose in summer they more than gain in winter. Moreover, they are always in motion; but they move so slow that you may look at them ever so closely and so long, you'll not be able to observe the motion just like the hour hand of a watch but we know it by observing the changes from year to year.
Buzzby, on being brought thus unexpectedly within reach of the ball, braced up his energies for a kick; but seeing O'Riley coming down towards him like a runaway locomotive, he pulled up, saying quietly to himself, "Ye may take it all yer own way, lad; I'm too old a bird to go for to make my carcass a buffer for a madcap like you to run agin." Jack Mivins, however, was troubled by no such qualms.
The countenance of the second mate brightened, for he prided himself not a little on his vast and varied stores of knowledge, and nothing pleased him so much as to be questioned, particularly on knotty subjects. "Hem! yes, Mivins, I can tell 'ee that.
But for many hours there was no sign of the boats, and the crew of the Dolphin began to entertain the most gloomy forebodings regarding them. At length, towards morning, a small speck of light was noticed on the weather-beam. It flickered for a moment, and then disappeared. "Did ye see yon?" said Saunders to Mivins in an agitated whisper, laying his huge hand on the shoulder of that worthy.
Davie Summers and his master, Mivins, shone conspicuous as bargain-makers, and carried to their respective bunks a large assortment of native articles. Fred and Tom Singleton, too, were extremely successful, and in a few hours a sufficient amount of skins were bartered to provide them with clothing for the winter.
"If we don't get speedy relief," remarked Captain Guy to Tom Singleton in reference to this party, "some of us will die. I feel certain of that. Poor Buzzby seems on his last legs, and Mivins is reduced to a shadow." The doctor was silent, for the captain's remark was too true. "You must get up your party at once, and set off after breakfast, Mr. Bolton," he added, turning to the first mate.
Mivins, hand me the glass; it seems to me there's a water-sky to the northward." "What is a water-sky, captain?" inquired Fred. "It is a peculiar, dark appearance of the sky on the horizon, which indicates open water; just the reverse of that bright appearance which you have often seen in the distance, and which we call the ice-blink."
'I'd svear to you anyveres, Sir, replied Sam cheerfully. 'Don't be impertinent to a gentleman, Sir, said Mr. Smangle. 'Not on no account, replied Sam. 'If you'll tell me wen he wakes, I'll be upon the wery best extra-super behaviour! This observation, having a remote tendency to imply that Mr. Smangle was no gentleman, kindled his ire. 'Mivins! said Mr. Smangle, with a passionate air.
"Ah, then, howld yer tongue, Blunderbore!" cried O'Riley, handing the glowing coal demanded, with as much nonchalance as if his fingers were made of cast-iron. "Well, ye see," resumed Buzzby, "when poor Mrs Ellice wos pitched overboard, as I seed her with my own two eyes " "Stop, Buzzby," said Mivins, "'ow was 'er 'ead at the time?" "Shut up!" cried several of the men; "go on, Buzzby."
"That's 'ow it is, sir," Mivins used to say, when spoken to by Fred on the subject, "I've never bin in cold countries myself, sir, but I've bin in 'ot, and I knows that with a stout pair o' legs, and a will to work, a man can work 'is way hanywhere.
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