[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER I 4/19
Who'll join? Don't think you're buying a pig in a poke.
I know the road, and Salvation Yeo, here, too, who was the gunner's mate, as well as I do the narrow seas, and better.
You ask him to show you the chart of it, now, and see if he don't tell you over the ruttier as well as Drake himself." On which the gaunt man pulled from under his arm a great white buffalo horn covered with rough etchings of land and sea, and held it up to the admiring ring. "See here, boys all, and behold the pictur of the place, dra'ed out so natural as ever was life.
I got mun from a Portingal, down to the Azores; and he'd pricked mun out, and pricked mun out, wheresoever he'd sailed, and whatsoever he'd seen.
Take mun in your hands now, Simon Evans, take mun in your hands; look mun over, and I'll warrant you'll know the way in five minutes so well as ever a shark in the seas." And the horn was passed from hand to hand; while Oxenham, who saw that his hearers were becoming moved, called through the open window for a great tankard of sack, and passed that from hand to hand, after the horn. The school-boy, who had been devouring with eyes and ears all which passed, and had contrived by this time to edge himself into the inner ring, now stood face to face with the hero of the emerald crest, and got as many peeps as he could at the wonder.
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