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"If you play false to me, Bob Hampton," came in tones which made me shiver, "you'll have a sleep that will last you for always. Do you hear? toujours!" "Two jours, that's two days, arn't it, skipper?" "No," hissed the man fiercely; "for ever. Here, Brown, bring an axe and a lantern. Stand it there." We heard steps overhead, and a light gleamed down from the lantern placed upon the stern-rails.
"And that's a bull as arn't an Irish one," he said. "Ah, yes, faith of a man, but don't you try to be funny, my man," said Jarette, "for this is not a funny time, when men are working with their necks in the hang-dog noose.
"To keep your arms warm! well sure-LY, if that arn't droll. It may be some use to keep the primins dry, I reckon; but I can't see the good of keepin' the fowlin' pieces warm. Have you met any game yet, officers. I expect as how I can pint you out a purty spry place for pattridges and sich like." "Thank you, my good fellow; but we have appointed to meet our GAME here."
I again spoke to the captain, but he was too far gone to reason with: he had got drunk to die, because he was afraid to die sober no unusual case with sailors. "Don't tell me; d n me, who is a-feard to die? I arn't. I swore she should never enter a British port, and I have kept my word." He then began to use curses and execrations; and, at last, fell on the deck in a fit of drunken frenzy.
I'm blowed if it arn't a disgrace to an oss to carry such a man, added he, eyeing the chestnut fidgeting and wincing as the captain worked away at the stirrups. Mr. Bragg trotted briskly on with the hounds, preceded by Joe Banks the first whip, and having Jack Swipes the second, and Tom Stot, riding together behind him, to keep off the crowd.
"No, I don't remember, and don't believe I ever said so." "Why, that you did, Bob. What's the good of contradicting?" "What's that to you, Sep Duncan?" he retorted. "You arn't everybody. I shall contradict if I like." "But you did say so." "I didn't." "You did. Now, just you wait till old Big comes and see if he don't say so too." "Yah! He'd say anything. What does he know about it?"
"Well, ef he arn't a brave chap that thar same Algernon Reynolds then jest put it down as how Isaac Younker don't know nothing 'bout faces," returned the individual in question, in reply to Boone. "I never seed a man with his fore'ed and eye as would run from danger when a friend war by wanting his sarvice." "Ay, he is indeed a clever youth!" rejoined Boone.
As he spoke he rose quickly into a sitting position and stared down through the opening where the steps began, uttered a sigh of content, and then said: "I was afraid you hadn't made them knots fast." "Oh, they're all right. But has your faintness gone off?" "Yes, sir, that's gone." "To think of a big sturdy fellow fainting dead away!" "Ah, 'tis rum, sir, arn't it?
Might ha' done it once upon a time, but wooden legs arn't the best kind o' gear for rock-climbing, sir, any more than they are for manning the yards aboard ship; and that's why I was pensioned-off." "Yes, Tom; but what about you to-night?" "Me, sir? I'm a-going to kiver mysen up with the sail and snooze away in the bottom of the boat."
And my shirt all cut to pieces, too arn't it, White-Jacket? Damn me, but these coltings puts the tin in the Purser's pocket. O Lord! my back feels as if there was a red-hot gridiron lashed to it. But I told you so a widow's curse on him, say I he thought I meant him, and not Priming."
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