a-kapin

Updated: May 29, 2025

Tom wor goin' on ahid, wid `Gyp' a-kapin' behoind him, an' Oi, sure, behoind him agin wid Miss Jenny, whin the monkey Jocko, who wor alongside of Tom's fayther, catches sight of `Gyp, and makes for the to'-gallant crosstrees ov the mulberry-tree, faith.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy