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

[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."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Hm." Walter grabbed two more sticks and skewered a pair of bananas, carefully pouring a bit of rum on them and having a not so careful gulp of it for himself.

"You're a very generous person."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I must be or I'd have drunk most of that flask myself by now." she said grinning and offering Walter a hotdog in a toasted hotdog bun.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter traded her the flask for the hot dog and tucked it into the crease of his legs while he toasted the bananas.

"Do you drink anything other than rum? I don't have trouble sharing. I just usually get whiskey."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Scotch? You mean my three friends "Peetie, Smoky, and Smoothe"?

"I dunno, pirate... Rum kinda comes with the territory."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Right. I'll replace your rum. Or at least as close to replacing it as I can."

The bananas burned merrily and Walter handed Pippi a stick with one still aflame. "Until then, though, have a banana."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yay! Flaming banana!"