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All of us seemed, really, to feel as if we had lost somebody or something; and when, presently, the watch was piped down, we all went below with saddened hearts. "Oi wondther now," said Mick, when we were having our supper at our messing-place aft on the lower deck a little later on, "if thet theer vissil wor a raal ship, Tom, or a banshee?"
"He wor a powerful man to ate, sure; but he knew his way about the howld av a vissil, sorr, that same." "That means, I suppose, bosun," replied Mr Mackay laughing and coughing as the tea-dust caught his breath, "that I don't eh?" "Be jabers, no, sorr," protested Tim; "I niver maned to say that, sorr, aven if I thought it.
"Why didn't I see it?" "Ye was lookin' astern, an' th' vissil barely turned the bow of th' dock an' her boom kissed us all th' way down. I yilled at ye, so did Dashalong an' th' silent man. Thin I got so interested in l'arnin' he could say a worrd, I quit lookin' at you complately." "I couldn't hear for the gulls I'll be all right in a minute."
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