. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. - just sippingfrom his cup, so that I might say I had tasted did, and thought I had never tasted such beastly stuffin my life. We were standing there quietly yarning about onething and another, and I had forgotten all about theforeign sailors, or Dagos, as Barrett contemptuously CATCHING A TARTAR. 331 called them, when suddenly I heard a voice just at myelbow say— Meester Eengleeshman, I dreenk yourgoot ealf. Turning about I saw one of the Italians calmly takeBarretts whiskey, and, making a
. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. - just sippingfrom his cup, so that I might say I had tasted did, and thought I had never tasted such beastly stuffin my life. We were standing there quietly yarning about onething and another, and I had forgotten all about theforeign sailors, or Dagos, as Barrett contemptuously CATCHING A TARTAR. 331 called them, when suddenly I heard a voice just at myelbow say— Meester Eengleeshman, I dreenk yourgoot ealf. Turning about I saw one of the Italians calmly takeBarretts whiskey, and, making a mocking bow, raise itto his lips. I beg your pardon, thats not yours ! said Edwards,quietly grasping the mans arm just as he was about to. ?IHE .SHINDV IX (JUAN TUNGS SALLiljN. drink. Take it, though, if you want it, continued he ;and so saying, with a rapid motion, he dashed the cupin the foreigners face. Then, seeing that the man attempted to draw hisknife, Edwards twisted his arm backwards—there was asickening crack, the fellows face turned ashy white, heyelled, and would have fallen, if Edwards had notseized him. Now go back and get your friends to teach you 33^ SPUNYARN AiXD SPINDRIFT. better manners, exclaimed he, lifting the foreigner asthough he had been a child, and slinging him headlongtowards his countrymen, several of whom were knockeddown as he fell sprawling into their midst. Look out! Theyve drawn their knives. Theyllbe down on us in a brace of shakes ! shouted Gudgeon. Now, fortunately, close by where we were standingwas a stack of bamboo poles of various lengths, thatwere probably used for barricading the place up at night,and in a very few seconds each of us was armed with agood cudgel—no mean wea
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