Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner . ocated fragments, from a mouththat gradually expanded u-ntil it reached from ear to ear,Away, away! well go a-fishin, a-fishin, a-fishin; away,away ! we 11 go a-sailin, a-sailin, a-sailin ; away, away ! we 11all be jolly, jolly, jolly, â we 11 all be jolly ; and so on untilthe sausage legs had carried the plum-duff head and the re-frain together so far down among the trees, towards the wa-ter, that all the other jollys and the sailins and the fish-ins, and the rest of it, were bl
Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner . ocated fragments, from a mouththat gradually expanded u-ntil it reached from ear to ear,Away, away! well go a-fishin, a-fishin, a-fishin; away,away ! we 11 go a-sailin, a-sailin, a-sailin ; away, away ! we 11all be jolly, jolly, jolly, â we 11 all be jolly ; and so on untilthe sausage legs had carried the plum-duff head and the re-frain together so far down among the trees, towards the wa-ter, that all the other jollys and the sailins and the fish-ins, and the rest of it, were blown clean away by the wind. And off went the Captain, too, hurrying up to the top of thehill behind the cottage, as if the cosey little thing was all afire,and the dear old soul was running up for help ; and when hereached the top of the hill, he began swinging round his oldtarpaulin hat, making the long blue ribbons fairly whistleand speak, as if they would say, Old man, old man, stop abit, and take breath ! â cant you now .* and say, whats thisall about, for goodness sake ! 7 J 146 CAST AWAY IN THE The Ancient Mariner becomes excited, and Main Brace makes an effort. But the old man knew well enough himself what it was allabout; for he was signalling his little friends ; and everycircle of his big arm, and every shake of his long gray beard,and every swing of his old tarpaulin hat, seemed to sing out,*Hurrah, hurrah, for a jolly day! hurrah, hurrah, my childrengay! hurrah, hurrah, lets up and away, upon the bright bluewaters! CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. 14/ By and by the children caught sight of the old tarpaulinhat and the blue ribbons and the Captain himself, all in thisstate of violent excitement; and down they bore at once uponthe ancient mariner, as if he were a regular bluft-bowed oldEast Indiaman, full of golden ingots, and they were clipper-built, copper-fastened, rakish fore-and-afters of the piraticalpattern. Heyday ! (the old man never thought he had begun until
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