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I dessay Na'mi told you about that, eh?" "Get on wi' your tale." "Pete Hancock was cap'n. The vessel was called after his uncle, you know, an' the Hancocks had a-bought up most o' the shares in her. That's how Pete came to be cap'n. We sailed on a Friday unlucky, I've heard that is. But Pete said them that laid th' Atlantic cable had started that day an' broke the spell.
"'Mary, says he, right in my ear, 'have 'ee seen the bank-book? "'Nay, John, says I; 'nay; 'twasn't to be expected, but I did hear, John, says I, 'as it were worth lookin' at. "He did sit him down then, an' did begin to whistle to hisself, an' to rub his knees up and down. He had his best clothes on, an' the big tall hat as he'd a-bought for the first poor Mrs. John's funeral.
Such a whack o' dome as he'd a-bought, and a weather-glass wherein the man comes forth as the woman goes innards, an' a dresser, painted a bright liver colour, engaging to the eye." "I niver seed a more matterimonial outfit, as you might say," put in Uncle Issy. "An' a warmin'-pan, an' likewise a lookin'-glass of a high pattern."
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