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Leaving Glynn and his little charge to philosophise on the resemblance between men and crocodiles, we shall now return to Tim Rokens and Phil Briant, whom we left in the trader's cottage.
"`Wouldn't I? says I; `try me, cushla, and see av I won't. "`Phil Briant, says she, awful solemn like, `I'm haunted. "`Haunted! says I; `'av coorse ye are, bliss yer purty face; don't I know that ivery boy in the parish is after ye? "`It's not that I mane. It's a ghost as haunts me. It haunts me cabin, and me cow, and me tater-estate; an' it drinks.
"Expensive jokin'," growled Tarquin, "if ye throw a pannikin overboard every time you take to it." "Kape your tongue quiet," said Briant, reddening, for he felt somewhat humbled at having given way to his anger so easily, and was nettled at the remark, coming as it did, in a sneering spirit, from a man for whom he had no particular liking.
But Briant had nought to boast of at departing, for Lancelot and his men carried off four of his by force right sore wounded, besides them that remained dead on the field. Briant of the Isles and Meliant betook them back all sorrowful for their knights that are taken and dead.
"Troth, if that's true what ye say, doctor, I hope ye'll see it to be yer duty to give wot ye cut off Gurney's share to me," remarked Briant, "for its nothing but a bag o' bones that I am this minute." "Oh! oh! wot a wopper," cried Jim Scroggles, whose lean and lanky person seemed ill adapted to exist upon light fare.
Here the trader entertained Tim Rokens and Phil Briant with stories of the slave-trade; and here we shall leave them while we follow Glynn and Ailie, who went off together to ramble along the shore of the calm sea. They had not gone far when specimens of the strange creatures that dwell in these lands presented themselves to their astonished gaze.
Whereupon Gurney started up and shook his fist across the table at Briant, and Briant made a face at Gurney, at which the assembled company of mariners laughed, and immediately thereafter the meeting was broken up. Next day the trial came on, and as the case was expected to be more than usually interesting, the house was filled to overflowing long before the hour.
This double remark was made to King Bumble, who passed the tobacco-pouch to his friend, after helping himself, and admitted that it was "mugnifercent." Rokens addressed his question to the captain, but Phil Briant, who had just succeeded in getting his pipe to draw beautifully, answered instead. "Och! no," said he; "that's not the way to pronounce it at all, at all. It's a huppi-puppi-puttimus."
As they stood thus talking there came by them a likely knight, who rode soberly and heavily, bearing a black shield. "What knight is that?" asked Tristram. "It is Sir Briant of North Wales," answered Persides. "I know him well." Just behind him came a knight who bore a shield with the arms of Cornwall, and as he rode up he sent a squire to Sir Briant, whom he required to joust with him.
But no alluring pictures of the delights of seafaring life, or the pleasures and excitements of the whale-fishery, had the least effect on their sable companion. Even sundry shrewd hints, thrown out by Phil Briant, that "the steward had always command o' the wittles, and that his assistant would only have to help himself when convanient," failed to move him.
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