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"And I thought you were dead I thought you were dead!" came in a familiar, deep, gruff voice, broken by sobs. "Oh, Marcus, my boy, where have you been?" "Looking for you, Serge." "You have? Well, that's what I have been doing for you." "But where were you?" cried Marcus. "I d'know, boy, only that I have been fighting.
"All primed?" cried a hoarse voice, which made Don wonder whether he was back in his uncle's yard at Bristol. "Ay, ay." "Come on, then. I know I brought one of 'em down. Sha'n't want no more meat for a month." "Say, mate, what are they?" "I d'know. Noo Zealand turkeys, I s'pose." "Who ever heard of turkey eight or nine foot high!" growled one of the approaching party.
It seemed to him altogether too tame an affair if nobody was hurt. "My shoulder's sprained, an' my head was hurt a little," Theo answered. "Say, Jim, where's Dick?" "I d'know. Out somewheres," replied Dick's brother, indifferently. "Why ain't you in school, Jimmy?" was Theo's next question. "Well, I like that!" exclaimed Jimmy, in a tone of deep disgust.
"Now, it's my 'pinion," said Billy, "that if you'd come fishing instead o' shooting, and rigged up rods and lines and tried for these here things in these ponds, you'd have had some sport." "But what would you have baited with?" said Mark, laughing. "I d'know," said Billy Widgeon. "Yes, I do," he continued, "dog. They say as 'gators and crockydiles is rare and fond o' dog."
He's all right," cried the skipper. "I've stuck the harpoon into him. You give him line, and you'll see we shall have him in his flurry directly." "Stop, man! Where are your proofs?" "Yes," cried Rodd, stamping excitedly about the cabin; "where are your proofs?" "Proofs?" said the skipper. "I d'know. Yes, I do. You ask the Count to his face, and his boy with him, whether what I say aren't true."
"She's a good girl, and I never want to see a more uncomplainin'; but I know it's duller and duller here all the while for her, with us two old folks, and no young company; and I d'know as it's been any better the two winters she's taught in the Mill Village. That's what reconciles me, on Lyddy's account, as much as anything.
"I d'know. Here's Mr Dale wants you to tell him where we are." "Mr Dale?" "Yes; I said so, didn't I, stoopid?" "Course you did, matey, but what's he doing here?" "That's what he wants you to tell him, only he wants to know first where here is."
He added, with a weak obstinacy: "I d'know as we're as poor as that comes to. The things would fetch something." "Enough to get us out there, and then we should be on Jim's hands," said the woman. "We should till spring, maybe. I d'know as I want to face another winter here, and I d'know as Jackson does." The young man gasped back, courageously: "I guess I can get along here well enough."
"How long will it take us to get down to the sea, Bob?" said Dexter at last. "I d'know. Week p'r'aps." "But we shall begin fishing before then, shan't we!" "Fishing! How are you going to fish without any rod and line? Expects me to find 'em for yer, I s'pose!" "No, but I thought you would catch the fish, and I could light a fire and cook them." "Oh, that's what yer thought, was it?
She can set there and do her mendin' when she don't feel like comin' into the cabin. The cabin well, I wish you could see that cabin, Maria! The first mate is a fine-appearing man, too. Some of the sailors looked pretty rough; but I guess it was as much their clothes as anything; and I d'know as Lyddy'd have a great deal to do with them, any way."
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