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CHAPTER III. SAVAGE AND CIVILIZED. Which is the one and which the
other? the reader may ask as he looks at the cut. This represents a
scene Old Ironside witnessed one day when he went on shore to
attend upon the Captain, Captain Bill Bluff, as he was called. You
may read the story, and then apply the terms at the head of the
chapter, if you can ascertain to which party they respectively
belong. It was quite customary for the master and officers of the
Vulture to employ Old Ironside, when any thing was to be done on
shore, or in any place where liquor was to be obtained; because
he-ijtvas almost the only one of the crew, whom they, felt that
they could trust. Besides, that he was temperate in his habits even
to the strictness of modern abstinence, they knew that the in
tegrity of his character was such that they 4;'.: ' might place in
him the most unlimited confidence. One day, as I tcld you above, he
was sent on shore to attend the Captain. After he had received his
orders from the first officer, he jumped into an Indian canoe
alongside, and the natives paddled along, while Old Ironside stood
erect and balanced himself on the stem of the canoe, till he drew
near the land. He did not wait for the little vessel to touch the
shore, but as she approached it he leapt, it might be a dozen feet
to the beach, and then hastened on towards the captain's residence.
Perhaps the reader would like to know what sort of a residence that
was, and I will try to describe it to him as nearly as I can. But
in the first place, when I speak of a house, you are not to suppose
I mean a mass of brick and mortar, three or four stories high, with
slated roof, glass windows, and pannelled doors. You must not even
picture to yourself such wooden tenements as are common in the
country in our ...
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