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CAPTAINS ALL CONTENTS I PAGE CAPTAINS ALL 7 II THE BOATSWAINS MATE ... .27 III THE NEST EGG 50 IV THE CONSTABLES MOVE 69 V BOBS REDEMPTION 88 VI OVER THE SIDE 108 VII FOUR PIGEONS 120 v vi CONTENTS VIII PAGK THE TEMPTATION OP SAMUEL BUBGE . . 137 IX THE MADNESS OF MB. LISTER . . . 156 X THE WHITE CAT 172 CAPTAINS ALL EVERY sailorman grumbles about the sea, said the night-watchman, thoughtfully. Its human nature to grumble, and I spose they keep on grumbling and sticking much else they can do. Theres not many shore- to it because there aint going berths that a sailorman is fit for, and those that they are such as a night-watchmans, for instance wants such a good character that theres few as are equal to it. Sometimes they get things to do ashore. I knew one man that took up butchering, and e did very well at it till the police took him up. Another man I knew gave up the sea to marry a washerwoman, and they hadnt been married six months afore she died, and back he ad to go to sea agin, pore chap. A man who used to grumble awful about the sea was old Sam Small a man Ive spoke of to you before. To hear im go on about the sea, arter he ad spent four or five months money in a fortnight, was artbreaking. He used to ask us wot was going to happen to im in his old age, and when we pointed out that he wouldnt be likely to ave any old age if he wasnt more careful of imself he used to fly into a temper and call us everything e could lay his tongue to. One time when e was ashore with Peter Russet and Ginger Dick he seemed to ave got it on the brain. He started being careful of is money instead o spending it, and three mornings running he bought a newspaper and read the advertisements, to see whetherthere was any comfortable berth for a strong, good- arted man wot didnt like work. He actually went arter one situation, and, if it hadnt ha been for seventy-nine other men, he said he believed hed ha had a good chance of getting it. As it was, all J e got was a black eye for shoving another man, and for a day or two he was so down-arted that e was no company at all for the other two. For two or three days e went out by imself, and then, all of a sudden, Ginger Dick and Peter began to notice a great change in him. He seemed to ave got quite cheerful and appy. He answered em back pleasant when they spoke to im, and one night he lay in is bed whistling comic songs until Ginger and Peter Russet ad to get out o bed to him. When he bought a new necktie and a smart cap and washed imself twice in one day they fust began to ask each other wot was up, and then they asked him. Up ses Sam nothing. Hes in love, ses Peter Russet. Youre a liar, ses Sam, without turning round. Hell ave it bad at is age, ses Ginger. Sam didnt say nothing, but he kept fidgeting about as though ed got something on his mind. Fust he looked out o the winder, then he ummed a tune, and at last, looking at em very fierce, he took a tooth-brush wrapped in paper out of is pocket and began to clean is teeth. He is in love, ses Ginger, as soon as he could speak. Or else es gorn mad, ses Peter, watching im. Which is it, Sam Sam made believe that he couldnt answer im because o the tooth-brush, and arter hed finished he ad such a raging toothache that e sat in a corner holding is face and looking the pictur o misery. They couldnt get a word out of him till they asked im to go out with them, and then he said e was going to bed. Twenty minutes arterwards, when Ginger Dick stepped back for is pipe, he found he ad gorn... |
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