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"Plenty yet, sir, and there's enough prog beg pardon, sir, wictuals to last us for some days; and look, sir, look. Here's a chance." "What? Where?" cried Mark, startled by the man's excitement. "Another slaver coming round the point there. You must take that one too, sir, and then you can go into port with flying colours. Double flying colours, sir!"
If you don't mind what I tell you, you and I part company. One of us two must be master, and I will, or you must tramp. Do you hear me?" "I can't do without wictuals!" whimpered Tommy. "I didn't come wi' you a purpose to be starved to death!" "I dare say you didn't; but when I starve, you must starve too; and when I eat, you shall have the first mouthful. What did you come with me for?"
"I've been bo'sun, sir, discharged out of the Southern Cross when she was sold in Singapore, and shipped out in the H.B. Leeds that went down in a typhoon. Junk picked us up, sir, what was left of us, and I lost all my discharges and can't get a ship out of here. I'm smart, sir, and strong, if I do look small. It's because I ain't had no wictuals to speak of, sir." "Ever handle steam-wheel?"
'I tell you I ain't agoin' to eat fat, he said, in a hoarse voice, as if his throat was stuffed up with one of his own newspapers. 'I want a special, I don't want a hordinary. 'This are a special, I tells you, retorted Spilsby, ungrammatically, pushing a smoking pie towards the boy; 'what a young wiper you are, Grattles, a-comin' and spoilin' my livin' by cussin' my wictuals.
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