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"Faith," said Mick, on my telling him this, "it'll be moighty onplisint fur ye, Tom, me bhoy; thet gimblet oye ov his sames to go roight thro' an' thro' me, begorrah, if he ivver onst looks at me sure!" I did not mind Mick's chaff, though. The captain had been a good friend to me while I had been on board, and I parted with him with as much regret as I felt when I said `good-bye' to `Gyp.
So he could only submit with the best grace possible under the circumstances, and find faint consolation in the thought that the treasure was at least secure. After a brief silence the chief resumed: "It's pained I am, so I am, to trouble a gintleman av fartune, but I'm undher the onplisint naycissichood av subjictin' ye to a further examination.
"No," said the philosopher, "I niver did; an' it's always been more thin sthrange to me that annywan shud come back afther he'd been stuck in a crate five feet deep, with a ton iv mud upon him. 'Tis onplisint iv thim, annyhow, not to say ongrateful.
It's a mite onplisint at first, but it's nothin' whin yer used to it." "Another examination?" repeated Russell, with no little uneasiness. "What is that?" "Oh, it's only an examination av yer apparel, yer clothes, bit by bit." "My clothes?" "Yes to gyard against anythin' bein' concailed about ye." "But I have nothing concealed, on my honor!" At this the chief waved his hands deprecatingly.