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"I don't want any of your palavering," interrupted R ; "but I want to know why the devil you went and made beasts of yourselves?" "Wery good, my Lord, I'm coming to the sarcumstances; but we warn't drunk, my Lord notottoll." "D saw you drunk," said R . "No, my Lord, no;" calmly said Tom, "the Cap'n carn't substanshate that air. We warn't drunk, my Lord, notottoll."

Very, like, a, whale," said R slowly. "Notottoll, my Lord, we had a bottle of ordonnory." "What's that?" asked R , a little puzzled. "Rot-gut, my Lord," ejaculated Tom, with emphasis; "and if, my Lord, a man wants to get the jandiss, I recommends vang ordonnory;" and down went Tom's fist, with a loud report, into the palm of his left hand.

"If you were not at all drunk," replied R , "you were very nearly drowned; and you don't mean to tell me, that you could ever capsize that dingy without being drunk?" "Notottoll, my Lord," persisted Tom; "Dick, my Lord, took a broad sheer to starboard, and capsized the boat. We warn't drunk, my Lord, notottoll."

"That's nothing more nor less than I would ax of your Lordship," interposed Tom; and, edging in a piece of opportune sentiment, he continued, "I have sailed three seasons with your Lordship, and I have always bore myself like a British sailor, as I be. We was joyful-like to stretch our timbers; but we warn't drunk, my Lord, notottoll."

"Thank you, my Lord," they murmured, and old Tom assisting in the thankful murmurs of Dick and George, kept reiterating till the sounds died away as he descended the fore-hatch. "We warn't drunk, my Lord, notottoll;" and Tom was the most notorious drunkard on board.