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"By dad, it's very flat anyhow, and by the same token it's seldom I throuble it; but sure, your honor, if the wather is level, how do you make out that it is round you go?" "That is a part of the knowledge I was speaking to you about," said the captain. "Musha, bad luck to you, knowledge, but you're a quare thing! and where is it Bingal, bad cess to it, would be at all at all?"
He was surprised to see growing in the midst of it a small bingal tree that bore a number of fine bingals, but not a single leaf. "This is a very curious thing, and I do not understand it," said Chundun Rajah to his Wuzeer. "Why does this tree bear such fine and perfect fruit, and yet it has not a single leaf?"
"An' might I be so bowld to ax, Captain, is Bingal much farther nor Fingal?" "A trifle or so, Paddy?" "Och, thin, millia murther, weirasthru, how'll I iver get there at all at all?" roared out poor Barny. "By turning about, and getting back the road you've come, as fast as you can." "Is it back? O Queen iv Heaven! an' how will I iver get back?" said the bewildered Barny.
I have muzzled his clack for the rest iv his life, and he won't be comin' over us wid the pride iv his Fingal while I'm to the fore, that was a'most at Bingal! "Terry O'Sullivan, who is he, pray?" said the captain. "O, he's a scut iv a chap that's not worth your axin' for, he's not worth your honor's notice, a braggin' poor craythur.
By gor, I thought it was Fingal he said, and now I hear it is Bingal. O, the divil sweep you for navigation, why did I meddle or make wid you at all at all? And my curse light on you, Terry O'Sullivan, why did I iver come across you, you onlooky vagabone, to put sich thoughts in my head? And so it's Bingal, and not Fingal, you're goin' to, Captain?" "Yes, indeed, Paddy."
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