Hard Cash

revived a little; and, the moment he caught sight o

, "let the ship go; it is

atiently, and cried again in the thin, querulous voic

arpe gave t

ands set stunsels

owards the hostile schooner astern. She had to hove to, and was picking up the survivors of her blotted-out consort. The group on the Agra's quarter-deck watched her to see what she would do next; flushed with immediate success, the younger officers crowed their fears she would not be game to attack them again

wimmer, she hoisted foresail, mainsail, and jib

than a mile, and was now running before a st

early twelve miles, and the

of sight of land, wind and sea rising, and

falling on the waves; the ship o

rise sea!" f

his glass, after a long examination, and rose unaided to his feet in great excitement, and found his manly voice for a moment: h

int and helpless into his friend's arms; and the surgeon, returning soo

e the same discovery, that the ship was gaining on him:

began to set. Mr. Tickell looked at him and said, "Hallo!

istaken and would get himself-and others-into trouble. However, the middy p

the blood of the slain, and wagging his tail by halves, perplexed. "Well, gentlemen," said Mrs. Beresford, "I hope you have made noise enough over one's head: an

f for the purpose; but he returned after some

g eye-to Vespasian. "I have a friend here w

quired the lady, turning h

h in a broad grin, "dis child knows where to find da

d fetch him

off with an o

avely, "would you oblige me by bestowing on my friend a portion of that

had returned, bringing a tall bread-bag in his arms: he now set it up before her, remarking, "Dis yar bag white outside, but him 'nation black inside." To confirm his words, he drew off the bag, and revealed Ramgolam, his black skin powdered with meal. The good-natured negro then blew the flour off his face, and dusted him a bit: the spectators laughed heartily, but Ramgolam never mov

and sailors into the sea; but, bread being the staff of existence, these foxes of the water will not harm it, but keep it for their lawless appetites; therefore Ramgolam, son of Chittroo, son of Soonarayan, will put the finger of

hows me my first words on coming here ought to have been to offer my warmest thanks to the brave men who have defended me and my child;" and swept them so queenly a curtesy, that the men's hats and caps flew off in an instant "Mr. Black," said sh

ary. "You see, ma'am, we haven't

ellows who have defended us so nobly,

long without an accident or two." He added, with nautical simplicity and love of cleanline

s. She turned faint, and on getting the better of that, went down to her cabin crying. Thence issued a royal or

was rigged; Sharpe read the burial service; and the dead, each man sewed up in his hammock with a 32-lb. shot, glided

ar that Death had a heavier blow in store. The surgeon's report of Captain Dod

f the deck beneath which their unconscious captain lay. If two men met on the quart

ar's trumpet had vanished in a meal-bag. However, it went down to his credit. One person, however, took a dark view of this innocent circumstance But then that hostile critic was Vespasian, a rival in matters of tint. He exploded in one of tho

have a grateful heart: and the colonel, who dealt little in i

scence. Then, with sudden ire, "Because Goramighty made you white, you tink y

at mean?" inquired

n? what him m

at does

't you hear Missy Besford misc

to Kenealy; "but we don't kno

ious slave, and invest me in a bread-bag,' instead of fighting for de ladies like a freenindependum citizen. Now you two go fast as

they could hardly amuse his friends just then; everything that touched upon Dodd was too serious now. The surgeon sat up with him nearly all ni

nch friends, inquired if they had asked themselves what should be done with the body? "Why I ask," said he, "is because we are in a very ho

ece of foresight. But Colonel Kenealy said, with tears, in his

to give me an order for a barr

this? She will think it a cruel thing I should come out of it without a scratch, and a ten times better man to be dead: and so it is; it is cruel, it is unjust, it is monst

t it seemed as unnecessary as it was repugnant to remove it from his living person. They agreed, however, that instantly on his decease they would take possession of it, n

ide; and the pair, whom one thing after another had

r physical companionship in sorrow rather than for conversation. They smoked their cigars in moody silence, an

ght The savage cries were answered on deck by shouts of dismay and many pattering feet making for the companion ladder; but the nearest persons to the cabin, and the first to reach

his bare claws, were fighting and struggling and trampling all over the cabin