After some pause, "You
see, Pipes," said his master, "to what I have brought myself." "Ey,
ey," answered the valet, "once the vessel is ashore, what signifies
talking? We must bear a hand to tow her off, if we can. If she
won't budge for all the anchors and capstans aboard, after we have
lightened her, by cutting away her masts, and heaving our guns and
cargo overboard, why then, mayhap a brisk gale of wind, a tide, or
current setting from shore, may float her again in the blast of a
whistle. Here is two hundred and ten guineas by the tale in this
here canvas bag; and upon this scrap of paper--no, avast--that's
my discharge from the parish for Moll Trundle--ey, here it is--an
order for thirty pounds upon the what-d'ye-call-'em in the city;
and two tickets for twenty-five and eighteen, which I lent, d'ye
see, to Sam Studding to buy a cargo of rum, when he hoisted the
sign of the commodore at St. Catherine's." So saying, he spread his
whole stock upon the table for the acceptance of Peregrine; who,
being very much affected with this fresh instance of his attachment,
expressed his satisfaction at seeing he had been such a good
economist, and paid his wages up to that very day.
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