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I am what is it? to re-venge it!" "What awful rot you talk!" said Toppin. "He only did what I told him, same as you would have done." "Oh no, he had ver' wickedness. Ever'body say he had. I am telling many one after one, by secret! And he is a debboy. Zey are more angry for zat. So much better!" "Rubbish!" cried Toppin impatiently. "You've no business to tell anyone anything.
"Look alive, Danvers, and don't stand there looking in the air. Walk in and take a pew, if you can find one." "I've come to borrow a glass," remarked the latest arrival. "Mine's smashed and my batman hasn't unpacked my aluminium traps. Judging by appearances, by Jove! I've drawn a blank. What's up a toppin' rag, or have the water pipes burst?"
McPherson turned out to be Christopher Tracy, alias Charles J. Tracy, alias Charles Tompkins, alias Topping, alias Toppin, etc., etc., arrested some eight or ten times for "wire-tapping." The "trusted cashier" materialized in the form of one Wyatt, alias, Fred Williams, etc., a "wire-tapper" and pal of "Chappie" Moran and "Larry" Summerfield.
Rather!" was Toppin's proud reply. "Well, you'd better trot back to your friends, and bathe with them. We're not going to wait for anyone." "Nor aren't I," said Toppin carelessly. "Come on!" shouted Simmons from a box. "Don't waste time!" Preparation for a bath is not a long process with a boy.
The March Hare, who was shivering beside him, sobbed with joy when he saw one small leg draw itself up, and an arm move a few inches, at their owner's will. "Top-peen! Top-peen!" he cried. "You are not died!" Toppin stared at his friend over a tea-spoon. He was sipping hot spirits-and-water, and wondering what it was. But Jack turned upon the March Hare.
I ses, an' no more talk to it Jim laid in alongside o' me. He's no hunger with a toppin' axe. 'Maybe, but I've seed him at a job o' throwin' in the woods, an' he didn't seem to make out no shape, said Jabez. 'He haven't got the shoulders, nor yet the judgment my opinion when he's dealin' with full-girt timber. He don't rightly make up his mind where he's goin' to throw her.
"It was a toppin' haul," declared Pete jovially, slapping his well-filled pocket after a visit to the bank, "an' the rest of them poor devils won't get over two and a half a pound some of 'em only two, when there's lots of fish. Half a cent a pound is a pretty good bonus!" Code had dinner with his mother that night, and appeared for it carefully dressed.
"Haven't we all got to take what's served?" A mutter of dissent ran round the bunks. "Outboard, yes; inboard, things can happen," said Disko. "Don't you go makin' a mock of Jonahs, young feller." "Well, Harve ain't no Jonah. Day after we catched him," Dan cut in, "we had a toppin' good catch." The cook threw up his head and laughed suddenly a queer, thin laugh. He was a most disconcerting nigger.
The March Hare and Toppin have learnt their lesson pretty thoroughly." Mr. Anderson frowned and bit his finger, and the toe of his boot tap-tapped on the ground. It was evident he was undecided. Presently he looked at Jack. "You mean that, provided I find these two lads absolutely none the worse for their ducking, you beg me, as a great favour, not to carry a report to Mr. West?"
"Toppin's gone clean vanished!" he told us, as we began to turn out. "I never was in such a damned, hair-raisin' hooker as this here. It ain't safe to go about the bloomin' decks." "'oo's gone?" asked Plummer, sitting up suddenly and throwing his legs over his bunk-board. "Toppin, one of the 'prentices," replied the man. "We've been huntin' all over the bloomin' show.
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