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"Och, your arnr, sure some unasy divil drooped the port; and the lantern and me we had no foothold at all at all, and the lantern went into the say, bad luck to ut; and I went afther to try and save ut for your arnr." "Belay all that!" said Robarts; "do you think you can blarney me, you young monkey? Here, Bosen's mate, take a rope's-end and start him! Again! Warm him well! That's right."
I say, Lucy, ask him when he comes if he is the bosen's mate. How little Eve will blaze!" "Then I shall ask him nothing of the kind. Do tell me! I know admirals they swear and captains, and, I think, lieutenants, and, above all, those little loves of midshipmen, strutting with their dirks and cocked hats, like warlike bantams, but I never met 'mates. Mates?"
Grey to bid the boatswain's mate pipe the hands on deck and bring the cook aft. "Quartermaster, unsling a fire-bucket and fill it from the men's kids: Mr. Tickell, see the cook swallow his own mess. Bosen's mate, take a bight of the flying jib sheet stand over him, and start him if he dailies with it."
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