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At a corner which led into a black hole of a court, a coffee-stand was stationed, in charge of a burly ruffian in corduroys. "Come along," said the girl. "There it is. It ain't strong, but it's 'ot." She sidled up to the stand, drawing Dart with her, as if glad of his protection. "'Ello, Barney," she said. "'Ere's a gent warnts a mug o' yer best. I've 'ad a bit o' luck, an' I wants one mesself."
Jorrocks, "go it gently, go it gently! Consider the day is 'ot, I'm almost out of breath, and faint for want of food. I've come all the way from Angle-tear, as we say in France, and lost my breakfast on the wogaye. Where is there an inn where I can recruit my famished frame? What's this?" looking up at a sign, "'Done a boar in a manger, what does this mean? where's my French dictionary?
Thot wave cleaned them out, took everythung along wuth ut the two mates, climbun' up the mizzen-ruggun', Samuel Henan runnun' tull the wheel, the two men ot the wheel, aye, an' the wheel utself.
I felt a little bit damp and chilly, but beer is like sea-water you don't catch cold through it and I sat down agin to wait for George Tebb. He came in smiling and out 'o breath in about ten minutes' time, with the key in 'is 'and, and as soon as I told 'im wot had 'appened to me with the beer he turned to the landlord and ordered me six o' rum 'ot at once.
Then another paper dug up from somewhere a sort of animated corpse that said was a 'undred and two, and attributed the unfortunate fact to 'is always 'aving 'ad 'is food as 'ot as 'e could swallow it. A bit of sense did begin to dawn upon 'im then, but too late in the day, I take it. 'E'd played about with 'imself too long.
Then I would go to a slap-up restaurant, and have green peas, and a bottle of fizz, and a chump chop O! and I forgot, I'd 'ave some devilled whitebait first and green gooseberry tart, and 'ot coffee, and some of that form of vice in big bottles with a seal Benedictine that's the bloomin' nyme!
"'Ot work," I said, wiping my brow. "Nar, not up there. Not 'ot. Nice and breezy like." "But 'e's nearer the sun than wot we are, ain't 'e?" "Ah, but 'e's not 'ot. Not up there." "'Ere, there 'e is," cried Myra, jumping up excitedly. "Over there. 'Ow naow, it's a bird. I declare I quite thought it was 'im. Silly of me."
'Yes, said old Joe Philpot, tragically, 'and then thers all them Hitalian horgin grinders, an' the blokes wot sells 'ot chestnuts; an' wen I was goin' 'ome last night I see a lot of them Frenchies sellin' hunions, an' a little wile afterwards I met two more of 'em comin' up the street with a bear.
Finally a brilliant idea occurs to one of them, being nothing less than to shift the weight ot the dreadful responsibility upon the authoritative shoulders of a visiting pasha, an important personage who arrived in Eski Baba by carriage about two hours ago, and whose arrival I remember caused quite a flurry of excitement among the natives.
"Heave the lead, Mr Moor," said the captain, who stood beside the wheel. "Yes, sir," answered the imperturbable second mate, who thereupon gave the necessary order, and when the depth was ascertained, the report was "Ten fathoms, sand, with a hot bottom." "A hot bottom! what do you mean?" "The lead's 'ot, sir," replied the sailor.
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