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"I daresay you're right, lad," replied Reuben, in a tone of one who muses. "There's room in the canoe for three, and it's not unlikely that the Injin would go south to the settlement, for he is a lonely man since his poor mother died. I do believe that it was nothin' but his extraor'nar' love for that old 'ooman that kep' him from goin' to the dogs.
"That's just what I said to the missus, sir, the very night arter we was rescued. `The way that young feller come off, Maggie, says I, `is most extraor'nar'. No fish that " "Yes, yes, Stride, I know, but that's not exactly what I mean: it's his being so amazingly independent that "
"Well, now, d'ye know, John Adams, alias Smith, mutineer, as ought to have bin hung but wasn't, an' as nobody would have the heart to hang now, even if they had the chance, this here adventur is out o' sight one o' the most extraor'nar circumstances as ever did happen to me since I was the length of a marlinspike."
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