Gipples

Gipples ought to have been seated on his powder tub, but he was not.

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

A shot struck two men working the gun nearest to where Gipples was sitting on his powder tub in terror unspeakable, not knowing what moment he might be hit.

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Gipples, not perceiving that Tim was joking, looked up and said in a half-crying tone:

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

While Tim Fid and his companions were running on with this sort of nonsense, poor Gipples wishing that he was anywhere but on board the

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"I suppose," said Gipples, looking at the swarthy Spanish soldiers with no friendly eye, "though these chaps may have liked to eat us if they had caught us, we ain't obliged to eat them."

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"Certainly," answered Harry, who, having glanced at Gipples 'countenance, could not resist the temptation of having a fling at him.

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Big Gipples was in no way liking the look of things; and only the conviction that he would be sent up again with a rope's end prevented him jumping off his tub and running down to stow himself away in the hold.

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Of course, Gipples came in for his ordinary share of quizzing.

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

True Blue, thus appealed to, was nothing loth to join in trying to increase the evident terror of Gipples.

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Gipples, but Gipples himself, terribly frightened with the idea that he was looked-for only that he might be drawn forth to be punished.

True Blue William Henry Giles Kingston 1847