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Besides, `a man's a man for a' that, ain't he, Tanner?" "Chinamen have no business abaft the funnel," said Barkins. "Did he give it to you very warmly, Gnat?" "Pretty well," I said, glad to escape Smith's examination. "I wasn't sorry to get out of the cabin." "No, I should think not. Why, what's come to the old boy taking to bully us himself? I thought he always meant to leave that to Dishy."
"Dishy will look at you along the top of her nose, with her chin in the air," said he. "But you mustn't be alarmed at that. She only does it because her glasses we're all short-sighted slip off her nose at ordinary levels. And when you come to think of it, how can she hold them on with her fingers when she looks at you. Like taking interest in a specimen!"
Serve you right for being sarcy; you'll behave better next time." "I hope so," I said meekly. "Dishy gave you his lecture, then, and walked you off to the skipper, eh?" "Yes," I said. "Well, it's of no use for you to be grumpy. You've had your lesson, and now you've got to behave yourself." "Yes." "And I am very glad to see you are so humble. Aren't you, Tanner?" "Yes," said Barkins gruffly.
"Oh dear!" he groaned; "what a long time it does take a wound to get well in this plaguey country. I know that knife was poisoned." "Nonsense!" I cried, unable to restrain my mirth. "Why, you are both getting on famously." "But Dishy might have let us go to the ball last night." "Play fair," I said; "we've been out to seven entertainments." "Well, what of that? They've been to a dozen.
But it was not a time for mirth: we were all too sad, and Barkins contented himself with whispering "I say, I'm jolly glad it wasn't I who said that. Don't the skipper take it coolly now? But he'll give old Dishy a talking-to for it when he gets him alone."
I'll go and see the doctor, and tell him we want a walk in the country to collect flowers, and ask him if he'll name them." "Well, he can't give us leave." "No; but he'll ask Dishy to let us off." "Bravo!" cried Smith. "Off you go. I say, though, we must have old Ching too. You see if he don't come out in his new gown!" "What new gown?" I said. "Hallo! didn't you know?
"No, but it don't matter if you deserved it. Now then, Gnat, tell us what Dishy said." "What about?" I asked innocently. "What about? Why, your associating with Ching so much." "Oh, that!" I cried. "Oh, that!" he said, mocking my way of speaking. "Why, what did you think I meant?" "I don't know." "Well, what did he say?" "Nothing at all." "What! no lies now." "Who's telling lies?
"I shall be fool enough to kick you out of the cabin if you touch him," cried Barkins angrily. "I won't have him bullied; and it was a mean sneaking thing to go telling tales as you did to old Dishy." "Look here," cried Smith, "if any one is a sneak it's you, for harking back and taking the miserable little beggar's side." "Never mind about that; you let him alone."
DINNER A LA MOTHER GOOSE. CAMP CHAPARRAL. August 15, 18-. 'Come with a whoop, come with a call; Come with a good will, or not at all. BEAN SOUP. 'She gave them some broth, she gave them some bread. SALT CODFISH. 'You shall have a fishy In a little dishy. ROAST MUTTON A LA VENISON. 'Dear sensibility, O la!
We three lads, midshipmen on board HM clipper gunboat the Teaser, did "tumble over" in other words, made our way down into the boat alongside but not so quickly that the first lieutenant, Mr Reardon, who, from his slightly Hibernian pronunciation of the word discipline and constant references thereto had earned for himself among us the sobriquet of "Dishy," did catch sight of us, come to the gangway and look down just as Double B had given the order to shove off, and was settling the strap of the large telescope he carried over his shoulder.
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