Beadle's Dime Novels No. 87: On the Deep — page 32: what you’re looking at

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34. ON THE DEEP. @one,” returned the mate... ‘“ We must try, instead, to consoli- date them that’s livig. And so,” he added, turning toward the young girl, “ you will admit me to say, by way of smooth- ing your sorrows of them that’s been slain, that if the attackle hadn’t been consummated, we'd have all been captured and deterionated into mince-meat !” “My only regret,” exclaimed the professor of languages, “is, that it was not in my power to make one of the fighting party. _ You missed me, I dare say, Captain Capstan ?” ‘Perhaps we'd have missed you all the same, had you been there !” answered the skipper. “ So it can make no great difference.” “Why, why, sir. Really now, you don't mean to cast an imputation upon my courage ?” “As you like,” answered Capstan, bluntly; “ perhaps — I do!” “Oh, dear me!” cried the professor, “this is too bad! I am not very pugnacious, I know, but, to be called a coward before a young lady—” “T don’t think the captain meant that, professor !” good. na- turedly interrupted Loring; “he probably meant to imply that you'd be the first man killed; therefore, the first one missed.” : , “And he’d have been. killed,” the .skipper gruffly added, “ because his Yarning wouldn’t have left him any spunk—any backbone to help himself. _“ Another ‘new-for-wrong,” cried Block. “Ay, ay, there you go again, Captain Capstan. I hope you don’t think that | my Yarning has detrimentalized from my persistent qualities.” From some cause or other the professor’s spectacles now begun to rattle, while Capstan replied : “‘You’ve had your trial more than once, Block, so that there’s no doubts about you; besides which, your l’arning is of that kind which relates to feminines.” _ ‘ And the dictionary, Oapstan—the dictionary, which I’ve perambulated through and through, so that I’m parfectly ac- quainted with them words which are most voluble and insinuating. Another rattle from the green spectacles, Capstan remained silent. COmicooOoks. com