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On imbibing it, he passed with quadrupedal
rapidity through three stages, the absurd, the choleric, the sleepy; and
was never his own goat again until he awoke from the latter. Now Master
Fred Beresford encountered him in the second stage of inebriety, and,
being a rough playfellow, tapped his nose with a battledore. Instantly
Billy butted at him; mischievous Fred screamed and jumped on the
bulwarks. Pot-angry Billy went at him there; whereupon the young
gentleman, with all eldrich screech, and a comparative estimate of perils
that smacked of inexperience, fled into the sea, at the very moment when
his anxious mother was rushing to save him. She uttered a scream of
agony, and would actually have followed him, but was held back, uttering
shriek after shriek, that pierced every heart within hearing.
But Dodd saw the boy go overboard, and vaulted over the bulwark near the
helm, roared in the very air, "Heave the ship to!" and went splash into
the water about ten yards from the place. He was soon followed by
Vespasian, and a boat was lowered as quickly as possible.


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