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Captain Ichabod was in high feather He whistled, he sang, and he kept his s All that he could do for the co so far as to drop as many of his "bedads"
as possible Whenever he had an opportunity, and these ca a word or two to Kate if he thought she looked gracious For the first day or two Dame Charter kept below She was afraid of the men, and did not even want to look at the," said Captain Ichabod to Mr
Delaplaine; "my men would not hurt her They're not the most tremendous kind of pirates, anyway, for I could not afford that sort I have often thought that I could er lot ofSpanish galleon, and the beastly foreigners beat us off, bedad, and we had a hard tiood fellows in the crew, tough old rascals who caht her, but most of my men are but poor knaves, and not to be afraid of"
This comfort Mr Delaplaine kept to himself, and on the second day out, the food which was served to the alley to see if she could do anything in the way of improvement
"I think you may eat this," she said, when she returned to Kate, "but I don't think that anything on board is fit for you When I went to the kitchen, I caht in the doorway; that cook, Mistress Kate, is the most terrible creature of all the pirates that ever were born His eyes are blistering green and his beard is all twisted into points, with the ends stuck fast with blood, which has never been washed off He roars like a lion, with shining teeth, but he speaks very fair, Mistress Kate; you would be amazed to hear how fair he speaks He told rating, that he wanted to kno I liked the s on board to do it with Which there are not, Mistress Kate And when he was beatin' up that batter for me and I asked him if he was not tired workin' so hard, he pulled up his sleeve and showed , all covered with hair, and asked ht it was likely he could tear hiive us better food if he could, for he leaned over and whispered to h the door, that the captain was in a very hard case, having lately lost everything he had at the ga-table, and therefore had not the money to store the ship as he would have done"