Volume I Part 12 (2/2)

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CHAPTER xxxV Ah, Annatoo!

In order to a coain discourse of Annatoo and her pilferings; and to what those pilferings led In the simplicity of my soul, I fancied that the dame, so much flattered as she needs an to repose in her, would now mend her ways, and abstain from her larcenies But not so She was possessed by some scores of devils, perpetually her to mischief on their own separate behoof, and not less for e to, her, present or prospective

One day the log-reel wasabout it Jarl spent a wholea substitute; and a few days after, pop, we came upon the lost: article hidden away in thethe little vessel to ”gripe” hard in steering, as if so her backward, we instituted a diligent examination, to see as the ly attached to one of the chain-plates under the starboardit up--much as you would the cord of a ponderous bucket far down in a well--a stout wooden box was discovered at the end; which opened, disclosed sundry knives, hatchets, and ax-heads

Called to the stand, the Upoluan deposed, that thrice he had rescued that identical box fro clutches

Now, here were four hus shut up in this little oaken craft, and, for the ti, their interests the sa thefts, without rhy silver froht it not lead to in the end?

Why, ere long, in good sooth, it led to the abstraction of the compass from the binnacle; so that ere fain to substitute for it, the one brought along in the Chamois

It was Jarl that first published this last and alarone to relieve her; and looking to see hoe headed, was horror-struck at the eht out the woman, and ferociously demanded the compass But her face was a blank; every word a denial

Further lenity was madness I summoned Samoa, told him what had happened, and affirhtly incarceration of his spouse To this he privily assented; and that very evening, when Annatoo descended into the forecastle, we barred over her the scuttle-slide Long she claht this was repeated; the daetically

It has somewhere been hinted, that Annatoo occasionally cast sheep's eyes at Jarl So I was not a little surprised when herat the ropes with us, she would give him sly pinches, and then look another way, innocent as a laain, she would refuse to handle the sa with him; ry faces, rinsed out the wooden can at the water cask, if it so chanced thattherefrom At other times, when the honest Skyeman came up from below, she would set up a shout of derision, and loll out her tongue; accoly unladylike gestures, significant of the profound contempt in which she held hi; but patiently overlooked and forgave it Inquiring the reason of the daular conduct, I learned, that with eye averted, she had very lately crept close to , and met with no tender reception

Doubtless, Jarl, asthe lady would forgive and forget hi, so outrageous became Annatoo's detestation of hier, and like ood-natured h with a terrible typhoon of passion He proposed, that forthwith the woman should be sacked and coer

Murder is catching At first I almost jumped at the proposition; but as quickly rejected it Ah! Annatoo: Wo shut up in a shi+p with such a hornet again

But are we yet through with her? Not yet Hitherto she had continued to perforned her since the coe: namely, those of the culinary department

Fro solepoisoned For h in the ive us our henbane broth

But what said Sa over the ht ah unachieved peccadilloes of his spouse? Yet so it was And thus blind was Belisarius hiues of Antonina

Witness that noble dame's affair with the youth Theodosius; when her deluded lord charged upon the scandal-ers with the very horns she had bestowed upon him

Upon one occasion, seized with a sudden desire to palliate Annatoo's thievings, Samoa proudly intimated, that the lady was the most virtuous of her sex

But alas, poor Annatoo, why sayme of the hard fate that so soon overtook thee, I almost repent what has already and too faithfully been portrayed

CHAPTER xxxVI The Parki Gives Up The Ghost