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Updated: June 8, 2025
His language was hot enough to flash the powder in the pan. "Lost him a'ready, ye lubbers, whilst I fetched up the rear?" he scolded. "Leave the old dog to find the trail. I be hanged if I take him alive for Stede Bonnet. What say, Bill? Skin and stuff him for a trophy " "First catch the slippery son o' Satan," tartly answered Bill. "He hides away like a hare.
But I must heave-to a bit and overhaul my reckoning, for I almost forget. Did ever any of you see a port-go-chaire?” “We never heard of such a port,” said some of his auditors; “you’re humbugging us.” “I have been to America, the West and East Ingees, but I never heard of such a port,” said another. “Why, you lubbers,” said the story-teller, “if you go to France, you’ll see thousands of them.
"Am I to, Mr Rodd?" said the man appealingly; and after a little more pressing he struck up in a good musical tenor the old-fashioned sea song of "The Mermaid," with its refrain of "We jolly sailor boys were up, up aloft, And the land lubbers lying down below, below, below, And the land lubbers lying down below!"
When two men had dropped from the masts, hurrying to get down because of his threat that the last man should be thrashed when the two men lay smashed to pieces at his feet, Pigot said: 'Heave the lubbers overboard. That night, Michael, the seamen rose, crept to his cabin, stabbed him to death, pitched his body overboard, put his lieutenants to sea in open boats, and then ran away to South America.
Checked, though not humbled, I repeat the necessary orders, and no sooner do I see the men on the rattlings, than I squeak out at the top of my voice, "Pave your way up the rigging pave your way, you lubbers." The men stop for a moment, grin at me with astonishment, and then scamper up like so many party-coloured devils.
'Belay that, Abny, you'll be having all the lubbers about the place aboard of us! 'Why, says the man Abny, 'since you're wi' us well and good, but don't forget we was hard in his wake, aye, and ready to lay him aboard long before you hove in sight and damn all, says I. 'Some day, Abny, some day, says the other, "I shall cut out that tongue o' yourn and watch ye eat it, lad, eat it hist, here cometh Gregory at last easy all. Now the moon was very bright, master, and looking out o' my hay-pile as the door opened I spied this rogue Gregory "
Just then, there came a shout over the waters. "Say, you lubbers, what did you move that boat for?" There was an instant gasp from all who turned so swiftly to look out over the water. Only Jack Benson's brown-haired head showed above the surface of the harbor, but his look was laughing, utterly care-free.
We made a chorus of affirmation to his wildest assertions, as though he had been a millionaire, a politician, or a reformer and we a crowd of ambitious lubbers. When we ventured to question his statements we did it after the manner of obsequious sycophants, to the end that his glory should be augmented by the flattery of our dissent.
The boys had to laugh at this odd way of expressing the difficulty of getting new lights erected, but they knew as well almost as their companion the dangers of the ocean off this part of Long Island. The whistle boomed out its wailing note again. "Closer and closer," lamented the captain, "what's the matter with those lubbers? Yer'd think they'd have a leadsman out."
While the other two hesitated he was upon them, had cracked their heads together, and hammered them down the steps to the waist. From his belt he whipped two pistols and leveled them at the grumblers. "Avast, you lubbers!" he bellowed. "By the powers, I'll learn you to play horse with Bully Evans! Pipe up your complaint or foot it, you flabby seacocks what call yourselves gentlemen of fortune!
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