Fig a nag = play the coper with an old horse and a fig of ginger.
The Herr Kriegsrath Coper was present, and noted all the Orders to he expedited.
One night he stayed on board a coper until a breeze came away; he then insisted on straddling across the bow of the boat on the return journey, and he lost his grip for once in his life and went overboard.
Mr. Coper had other attractions for young and lusty fishermen.
I abide here, following the Flower and drinking wine as an Afghan coper should.
We have talked together some four or five evenings now, and for all I am a horse-coper I can still, as the saying is, see holiness beyond the legs of a horse.
He wente his wey, and with the coper cam, And this chanoun it in his handes nam, And of that coper weyed out but an ounce.
There's the Coper alongside now; go, get another keg.
It was not an easy matter to handle one whose frame was so heavy, but with the assistance of the owner of the Coper they managed it.
On the very day about which we write, seeing the Coper not far off, the unhappy man had thrust the watch into his trousers pocket with the intention of bartering it with the Dutchman for rum, if he should get the chance.
The skipper of the Coper acted on the advice at once, and made the end of a rope fast round Bright's waist.
Tom Coper and Farmer Thackum, the umpires, both say they never saw so tremendous a ball.
Coper showed him three or four others--good things in their way, but not at all suited to the gent.
The gent quite thought Coper was repenting of the bargain, and so walked away to the little countin'-house, and drew a check for the money.
Coper saw in a minute that he knew nothing about horseflesh, and so was uncommon civil.
When the mission ship was about half a mile from the Lily, Charlie said to the coper skipper: 'Now is your chance to get rid of Ping Wang and me.
From the coper skipper's point of view the two following days were very unsatisfactory.
As soon as Charlie and Ping Wang saw the sailors, they guessed that the coper had been captured in British waters, and in their delight they jumped off the seat on which they had been sleeping and stood up on the cushions.
So it is,' Fred declared, as he recognised the officer of the revenue cutter, who had captured the coper in which his brother and Ping Wang were unwilling passengers.
As soon as they were aboard, the cutter started, escorting the coper into Grimsby.
I am very much afraid that we have not bettered ourselves by leaving the Sparrow-hawk, for if the skipper of the coper finds that we have money, even though we neither drink nor gamble, he will be anxious to get rid of us.
I fancy,' Charlie said, 'that the coper skipper is an old hand at the game.
To the revenue officials' surprise, the coper skipper pleaded guilty to selling spirits and tobacco in British waters.
It was the only boat that the coper possessed, and when the skipper discovered what the two fishermen had done he hurried on deck and shouted abuse at them.
My capture of thatcoper on which I found you and Ping Wang won the approval of the authorities, and, fortunately for me, I was able to effect another capture, about three weeks later.
Very bad news he considered it, for he knew that the North Sea fishermen never came aboard a coper if there was a mission ship with the fleet.
Tom Coper and Farmer Thackum, the umpires, both say that they never saw so tremendous a ball.
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