Squirrel Campfire - Wed. Evening

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

After returning from her shopping trip into town, Pippi makes a B-line for the Squirrel cabin campfire.

She's got a medium sized blaze going and is cooking hot dogs on sticks over the fire while she sings.

Oh, the ships will come and the ships will go,
As long as the waves do roll:
The sailor lad, likewise his dad,
He loves the flowing bowl:
A lass ashore we do adore,
One that is plump and round, round, round.
When the money is gone, it's the same old song,
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!

Singing, Hey! laddie, ho! laddie,
Swing the capstan 'round, 'round, 'round
When the money is gone it's the same old song,
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!

[I] go and take a trip in a man-o'-war
To China or Japan,
In Asia, there are ladies fair
Who love the sailorman.
When Jack and Joe palavers, O,
And buy the girls a gown, gown, gown.
When the money is gone it's the same old song,
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!

When Jack is ashore he beats his way
Towards some boarding-house:
He's welcome in with his rum and gin,
And he's fed with pork and souse:
For he'll spend and spend and never offend,
But he'll lay drunk on the ground, ground, ground:
When my money is gone it's the same old song:
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!

When Jack is old and weatherbeat,
Too old to roustabout,
In some rum-shop they'll let him stop,
At eight bells he's turned out.
Then he cries, he cries up to the skies:
"I'll soon be homeward bound, bound, bound."
When my money is gone it's the same old song:
Get up, Jack! John, sit down!

Comments

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, no."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Right. I don't suppose you have any bananas?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Check the bag." Pippi said nodding to an All and Sundries bag by her feet.

The bag contains not only hotdog fixins but a variety of fruit and snacks as well.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter rummaged in the bag and pulled out a banana. Phallic objects galore.

Walter, for no reason he could explain, peeled the banana and stuck it on a stick.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Mr. Neilson scurried up with a familiar little flask.

"Eep eep?"
//Bananas on fire?//

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Pup perked up at Mr. Neilson's arrival and Walter put a hand on his back to push him back down.

//It's not quite the same, but I could set the banana on fire for you if you want. If I can drink some of what you have there.//

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Eep."
//You can have as much as you like, it's not mine.//

Pippi looked over... "Got what where?" she asked.

"Mister Neilson! What are you doing with that?"

"Eep!"
//Eep!//

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"He had a brilliant idea, Pippi," Walter said, reaching for the flask.

//Quick!//

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Mr. Neilson tosses the flask to Walter and dives to cover.

"Walter... I realize that I've reviled to you that I'm a latent pirate... But it's still not wise to muck about with my rum."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Who's mucking?" Walter carefully poured a very small amount on the banana. "Mr. Neilson wanted bananas on fire."

He stuck the banana in the fire and watched it light up. "Your turn?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi gave some thought to rum dipped hot dog on fire...

"Yeah, why not."

Because setting something like a hot dog on fire is what one does after being tested on how well one puts on a condom.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

Walter pulled the banana out of the fire and stuck the end of the stick in the dirt to let it cool for Mr. Neilson.

"I'd prefer to set my stomach on fire with some of that rum when you're done with it." Because that's what one does after being tested on how well one puts on a condom.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi takes a swig before handing over the flask.

"I had a chat with Mr. Blackadder today."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

That called for a substantial swallow of rum and a wince.

"How did that go?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"He seemed a bit hard of hearing. But otherwise he was fine."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

He passed back the flask.

"Hard of hearing?" That was a new one. "He didn't call the troopers on you?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"No, of course not." she said. "I just went in, got my stuff, payed, and told him he was welcome."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Welcome?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Funny... That's pretty much how Blackadder had reacted... Was Walter loosing his hearing too?

"Yeah, you know. 'Cause we saved his life and stuff."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Mmhm." He obviously hadn't had enough of that rum, even if it was Pippi's special sauce.

"I'm sure he was all over you with thanks, then."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You know how some adults can be... Particularly you male types. Entirely to proud and stoic a'times. It seemed to me he was thankful in his own way."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

What was wrong with stoic?

"Does that mean he didn't try to call the troopers on you?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"No. He didn't try to call the troopers on me. I think he should go to the Clinic and get his head checked though."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"He needed his head checked before he hit it." Walter peeled another banana and held his hand out to Pippi for the rum. The one he'd cooked for Mr. Neilson smelled good.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi took another swig and passed it back. Mr. Neilson was happily chawing away at the one stuck in the ground.

"Make two." she said eating her hot dog.

"Anyway, yeah. Mr. Blackadder's fine. He's not very strong or a vampire hunter or a spy in training or a mutant or a mercenary or a clever investigator or a hit-man or very smart. He's just... a people, you have to be gentle with people. They can't take things."