Clinton : or, Boy-life in the country . l butmost unromantic task, he began to grow ill. Hisstomach rolled and pitched with the brig, and his headwas light and dizzy. When he walked he reeled likea drunken man, and the deck seemed about to fly upinto his face. Every moment, his sensations becamemore distressing. He laid himself down in a shelteredpart of the deck, but found no relief. His pale, wo-be-gone countenance bore the impress of his , how he wished he was once more on shore ! Howhe cursed in his heart the hour that he turned hiswayward steps from Brookdale! As the motion ofthe
Clinton : or, Boy-life in the country . l butmost unromantic task, he began to grow ill. Hisstomach rolled and pitched with the brig, and his headwas light and dizzy. When he walked he reeled likea drunken man, and the deck seemed about to fly upinto his face. Every moment, his sensations becamemore distressing. He laid himself down in a shelteredpart of the deck, but found no relief. His pale, wo-be-gone countenance bore the impress of his , how he wished he was once more on shore ! Howhe cursed in his heart the hour that he turned hiswayward steps from Brookdale! As the motion ofthe vessel rolled him about like a log, he almost wishedthat it might pitch him overboard, and thus put an end 14* . 162 A sailors prank. to bis misery. Should such an accident happen, itseemed to him he would not iift a finger to escapea watery grave. Such thoughts as these were passingthrough the brain of the sea-sick boy, when some onestole slyly up behind him, and dropped a large pieceof greasy salt pork almost directly into his Any fatty substance is very disagreeable to a sea-sick person; and this mischievous prank, with thelaughter and jibes of the sailors which followed it, putthe climax upon the misery of Jerry. He got upon GOING TO BED. 163 Ins feet, and, clinging to the rail, began to vomit, or throw up Jonah, as the sailors term it. The morehe retched, and gagged, and groaned, the more his tor-mentors ridiculed Iiim. The most conspicuous amongthem was a raw, freckle-faced lad, apparently a little olderthan himself, who was now on his second voyage, andwas retaliating upon Jerry the treatment he had him-self suffered but six or eight months before. He itwas that dropped the pork into Jerrys face. Thesailors called him Bob, for they seldom use any butnick-names, and those of the shortest kind. Jerry remained upon the deck nearly all the after-noon ; and no one, from Bob to the Captain, took anynotice of him, except to laugh at his condition. Sea-sick people genera
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