One morning, however, I heard a commotion overhead, and going upstairs found Captain Bucko in a state of great excitement.
I have certain instruments which poor Captain Bucko used to ascertain the ship's position, I am as helpless with them as an infant.
His chief ambition was to kick in the ribs or pound senseless some invincible bucko mate.
Reenforcing the bucko mate was the tradition that the sailor was a dog, a different human species from the landsman, without laws and usages to protect him.
He took ill, but this bucko hauled him out of his bunk and made him work around in the wet and the cold at various work-up jobs, and the little beggar took pneumonia and died.
That's the bucko that'll organise her, take my tip.
I cannot but extol the virile potency of the old bucko that could still knock another child out of her.
I began to feel that there was something wrong about the Golden Bough besides her bucko mates, and I possessed the superstitions of my kind.
The bucko mates usually contented themselves with working the men at top speed, depriving them of their afternoon watches below, and thumping the stiffs, because they were lubberly at their work.
He was seeing to it that no one on deck gave the bucko the excuse to start trouble that had been denied him in the foc'sle.
He is bluff and harsh and without imagination, as brutal a bucko as one is likely to find In any ship, but he is 'on the square,' as you put it.
Of course, I was confident I could have knocked him out as handily as Bucko Lynch, himself, but I knew it was not fear of me, but obedience to Boston's words that caused Blackie to give in so readily.
But their hardness was the typical tough's hardness, nine parts bravado, a savagery not difficult to subdue with an oak belaying pin in the fist of a bucko mate.
Had he and I been mistaken in our judgment of Bucko Lynch?
But, of course, I was not musing upon the economy of hell-ships, or the characters of bucko mates, during the balance of that trick at the wheel.
The hurts Swope had inflicted prevented the boy moving about as quickly as Mister Fitzgibbon desired, so the bucko had laid him out and walked upon him during the mid-watch.
Bucko Lynch curbed his vocabulary and stopped using his fists, as the captain ordered, but he didn't stop working his men.
It was a liberty he was safe in taking, now that thebucko mate had reformed.
The captain rode high in his owner's esteem when he could point to the golden results of his stern rule at sea; the bucko mates were specifically hired to haze the crew, and drew extra large pay for the job.
When he got to sea he would find his crew composed chiefly of the very scum of the waterside, a mode of unlicked, lawless ruffians, and his bucko mates would need all their prowess to keep them subordinate.
If I shipped, I should be famous the world around as the fellow who feared neither God, nor Devil, nor Yankee Swope and his bucko mates!
I sailed with your grandfather when he was a bucko of the old school, and though we didn’t usually agree and once I nearly shot him, I never knuckled under.
I have since learned that Dido won her wandering Æneas in Manila, and that the captain finally has found his "bucko mate.
Best place to talk is in the middle of a crowd, as old Bucko Tom used to say.
And Bucko Tom--that was the man Jerry had "got" according to Swanson's talk that first night.
What did they mean by 'getting' Bucko Tom, an' the Melbourne officers?
But I'm goin' to git that bucko mate yet, Shark Smith!
But if it was me as got Bucko Tom, who was it got the officers o' the Melbourne, eh?
He ain't no bucko skipper as they talks about; a crowd of Sunday School sailors is about his mark.
And let all the bruising bosuns and bucko ship's officers afloat jump on me, but give me that and I'll take a chance.
The old buckostepped over his chalk mark, and the girl hustled him away before he could say anything more.
I don't think that old flatfoot bucko ought to put you in such a taking, Matt.
