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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Let me do a bit of listening.... What was it the party said again, Davy just precisely?..." Dave was even less audible than before in his response to this, and Uncle Mo evidently softened it for repetition: "Said if Micky told him any etceterer lies he'd rip his heart out? Was that it, Dave?" "Yorce," said Dave, aloud and emphatically. "This time!"
"`O yes, it is, says he, smilin', quite affable-like. `The best o' tipple here, an' cheap too. Come along. I've got somethin' very partikler to say to you. Look here, waiter two cups o' coffee, hot an' strong, some buttered toast, an' no end o' buns, etceterer. "Wi' that he led me to a seat, an' we sat down.
"`England expec's every man, etceterer," said Molloy, with a glance at Miles. "Capting, you may as well let us know your plans, so as we may work together." Miles was not long in making up his mind. "You'll fire at first by command," he said quickly, but decidedly; "then down on your faces flat, and load. After that wait for orders.
"Now, if that su'thin' had kep' quiet, I do believe that I'd have gone about-ship an' showed her my heels, but that su'thin', whatever it was, set up my dander. `Now then, says I, `haul taut the main brace! Up wi' the t'gall'nt-s'ls an' sky-scrapers! "England expects," etceterer! "Afore you could say Jack Robinson, I was along side grapplin'-irons hove into her riggin', and a broadside fired.
In sitch a enormous tubful o' lobsters, etceterer, it's a wonder we've met at all. An' p'r'aps you've bin a good deal under hatches since you come a-boord?" Molloy said this with a knowing look and a grin. Miles met the remark in a similar spirit. "Yes, Jack, I've been paying tribute to Neptune lately." "You looks like it, Miles, judgin' by the colour o' your jib. Where away now?"
Similarly, w'en Abel Welsh comed ashore he went to work with his mates at the pit-saw an' tossed off no end o' planks, etceterer. But you see, sir, arter a time we come for to find that we're workin' to the whole population for nothin', and while everybody else is working away at his own hut or garden, or what not, our gardens is left to work themselves, an' our huts is nowhere!
Bobby, dear, don't steal again." "No, Hetty, I won't, I'll vork. I didn't go for to do it a-purpose, but I was overtook some'ow I seed the umbrellar standin' handy, you know, and etceterer. But I'm sorry I did it, an' I won't do it again."
"Ditto, says I," answered Hockins, when appealed to, "for, to the best o' my belief, my old ooman is awaitin' for me, too, over there he pointed to England with the stem of his pipe to say nothin' o' three thumpin' boys an' a gal also an old gran'-mother an' a maiden aunt, etceterer all awaitin' with great patience, I have no manner o' doubt." "But how's we to git dar?
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