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'That s' be as ye please, Miss Craig. But I wud lat you ca' me a' the ill names in the dictionar to get ye to heark to me! I'm tellin ye naething but what's true as death. 'I call no one names. I am always civil to my neighbours whoever they may be! I will not listen to you. 'Eh, lassie, there's but feow o' yer neebours ceevil to yer name, whatever they be to yersel!
The captain nodded assent; and Neptune, striking the deck with the end of his trident, commanded attention, and thus addressed his court: "Heark ye, my Tritons, you are called here to shave, duck, and physic all as needs, but I command you to be gentle.
"I preshoom, from your apparance, you've come into your prawpertee; and, bedad, yee'll spend it like a man of spirit I'll go bail for that. No? not yet come into your estete? If ye want any thrifle, heark ye, there's poor old Jack Costigan has got a guinea or two in his pocket and, be heavens! you shall never want, Awthur, me dear boy. What'll ye have?
To pull an arrow out of the body; to exercise and strike with a clubbe, a buckler to theire feete, and take it if neede requireth, and defende himselfe, if neede requirs, from the ennemy; being in sentery to heark the ennemy that comes neere, and to heare the better lay him downe on the side. These postures are playd while the drums beate.
"Touch his at and all, didn't you, Red Beard?" "And wish I'd never stopped touchin it!" shouted the giant. "Blasted young fool that I were! Thought I'd take a short cut to fortune, same as the rest. And where's it landed me?" He swept his hand around. "Heark to Red Beard!" giggled Fat George. "Quite the Methody man, ain't he?" A gust of passion darkened the giant's face.
But I can do twa or three things; an' ane o' them is, I can mak' a sang; and anither is, I can mak' a tune till't; and a third is, I can sing the tane to the tither, that is whan I haena had either ower muckle or ower little o' the tappit hen. Noo, heark ye. This ane's a' my ain: GAEIN' AND COMIN'.
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