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It was in the old Amphitrite I was at the time she's broken- up and burnt for firewood long ago, poor old thing! and we was a-lying in the Bight of Benin, alongside of a slaver which we had captured the day before off Whydah.
"Law, mum, whatever be I a-doing of a-lying here in broad daylight! I humbly asks yer parding, mum." "Oh, never mind that, you're not so very late, my poor boy, considering all you went through yesterday and last night," said Mrs Gilmour smiling. "But, come now, you mustn't keep the Captain waiting, or we'll have him trotting upstairs after you himself.
Give us, in mercy, better homes when we're a-lying in our cradles; give us better food when we're a- working for our lives; give us kinder laws to bring us back when were a-going wrong; and don't set jail, jail, jail, afore us, everywhere we turn.
"Not yet," said the boy; "but I'm going to be some day." "Right you are," cried the man again; and Bob felt as if he should like to tell the man he ought to say, "You are right;" but the man went on, still looking him over from head to foot: "Then you aren't going to jyne the 'Flash'? she's a-lying out yonder." "No," said the Skipper, "I am only going to see my father. He's the Captain."
The marks of a heavy, inanimate body having been dragged through the wet grass were evidence enough, and Copplestone and Spurge followed them to a corner of the old tower where they ceased. Spurge glanced round that corner and uttered a sharp exclamation. "Just what I expected!" he said. "Leastways, what I expected as soon as I see Jim a-lying there. Guv'nor, the stuff's gone!"
Why, Sir, it wore only like yesterday that this here tall, elegant, royal young lady was a-lying on my breast, and what a hand she was to kick! And I said that her hair was sure to grow like this. If I was to tell you only half what comes across me " "If you did, ma'am, the cabman would make his fortune, and I should lose mine, which is more than I can afford.
"You never signify, Mistress, that the blessed recluse was an hypocrite?" "The blessed recluse was mighty fond of sweetbreads," said Alvena, taking a pin out of her mouth, "and many an one smuggled I in to her under my cloak, when Father Luke thought she was a-fasting on bread and water. And I, oping the door to see if it rained, trow! found these birds a-lying there.
Christopher," said she to the servant who came up when she rang, "pray are the sweeps gone yet?" "No, ma'am." "But have they been up to old Eden yet?" "Oh, no, ma'am; nor be not to go till the bell rings; for Miss Bertha, ma'am, was asleep a-lying down, and her brother wouldn't have her wakened on no account whatsomever.
"Chesties and casks, my lad, and we're a-lying on 'em leastwise I am. What are we two a-lying on chesties and casks for?" "I don't know, Bob. But who's that snoring so?" "Where?" "Somebody was snoring just now, but it stopped when you spoke." "Then I s'pose it must ha' been me, my lad. I have heard say as I could play a pretty good toon on my nose when I was very fast asleep." "No.
Once I remember I saw a sojer and his wife a-lying down by the wayside; they couldn't go no farther and had lain down to die together; and I wished that it had been Jan and me; but I had the boy on my back and I went on. Well, I won't tell you what terrible sights we saw on the road; but I'll tell 'ee this, that I have seen grown men a-sobbing like children for pain and cold and hunger.
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