[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER VII 43/45
Amyas, take him with you to Ireland.
If he has learnt half the lessons God has set him to learn, he ought to stand you in good stead." Yeo looked eagerly at the young giant. "Will you have me, sir? There's few matters I can't turn my hand to: and maybe you'll be going to the Indies again, some day, eh? and take me with you? I'd serve your turn well, though I say it, either for gunner or for pilot.
I know every stone and tree from Nombre to Panama, and all the ports of both the seas.
You'll never be content, I'll warrant, till you've had another turn along the gold coasts, will you now ?" Amyas laughed, and nodded; and the bargain was concluded. So out went Yeo to eat, and Amyas having received his despatches, got ready for his journey home. "Go the short way over the moors, lad; and send back Cary's gray when you can.
You must not lose an hour, but be ready to sail the moment the wind goes about." So they started: but as Amyas was getting into the saddle, he saw that there was some stir among the servants, who seemed to keep carefully out of Yeo's way, whispering and nodding mysteriously; and just as his foot was in the stirrup, Anthony, the old butler, plucked him back. "Dear father alive, Mr.Amyas!" whispered he: "and you ben't going by the moor road all alone with that chap ?" "Why not, then? I'm too big for him to eat, I reckon." "Oh, Mr.Amyas! he's not right, I tell you; not company for a Christian--to go forth with creatures as has flames of fire in their inwards; 'tis temptation of Providence, indeed, then, it is." "Tale of a tub." "Tale of a Christian, sir.
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