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'And that you truly hate the Papists. 'So I do, and he confirmed it with a good round oath. 'Lookye here, Muster Gashford, said the fellow, laying his hat and stick upon the floor, and slowly beating the palm of one hand with the fingers of the other; 'Ob-serve. I'm a constitutional officer that works for my living, and does my work creditable. Do I, or do I not? 'Unquestionably. 'Very good.
For, lookye, there was two of us in London, a rascal Irishman and me, that lived in the same lodgings. We did that to save cost, after we'd both had dogs' fortune at the cards and the faro-table.
Ike was seated astride one of the large baskets as if it were a saddle, and taking off his old hat he began to indulge in a good scratch at his head. "Lookye here," he exclaimed suddenly, "why don't you go to market?" "Too young," I said, with a feeling of eagerness flashing through me.
"He wants most of all to get the boat," he thought to himself; and soon after he opened his heart to Dexter. "Lookye here!" he said, "he wants to get the boat; and if he can get that he won't come after us. Let's row pretty close to the bank, and get ashore and run." "What! and leave the boat?" cried Dexter. "That I'm sure I will not."
"Well, sir, quite enough, but you keep the skipper on one schooner, and the men on the other. They're best apart, sir." "But you cannot manage." "Lookye here, sir, I'm going to have a talk to old Taters, and I shall give him a capstan bar to use, instead of the cutlash.
Lookye here, my lad, you must be 'bout starving." "Starving, Bob? I had not thought of it," said the boy, sadly. "Then I'll think for you. I say you must have something, and so must I. Fellow's engine won't work without coal. Hi! Jackum! Something to eat?" The black bounded to his side. "Jackum want eat. Baal hab bit snakum." "More you did, Sootie; but you shall have something better. Come along."
"I promised to take that there bottle back," said Bob, with a grin, "but I shan't now. Lookye here. You make 'em give you a good lot of bread and butter for the sixpence, and if they asks you any questions, you say we're two gentlemen out for a holiday."
"Not me." "What! You dare " cried Jarette. "Lookye here, skipper," growled Dumlow, "don't you get poking that there pestle in my face, 'cause it might go off." "Yes, and it will go off," cried Jarette. "I mean to be obeyed by this crew, as I've just shown you." "Nay, but don't poke pestles in my face; 'cause it make me hit out, and when I hits out I hurts. You ask some one else."
"You won't shoot me, gentlemen?" "No, man, of course not." "Nor you, Mr Small," pleaded Billy. "Lookye here, Billy Widgeon," growled the boatswain, "if you don't do your dooty like a man, and chuck them there blazing sticks right into the back o' that there hole, I'm blest if I don't."
The King appointed him to attend us, and indeed we have overwhelmed him with our favours; so, lookye, I will go out and speak with him of this matter, and promise him some monies and tell him that, if he have a mind to tarry with us, I will marry him to whom he will. He told me before to day that he had been a highwayman; so if he consent to us we shall win our wish and reach to our own land."
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