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The saplin was no sooner bent than secured to the ground by a notched peg and a noose, and a slip knot was suspended from the tree, jist over the track that led from the pathway to the house. Why, my Gor, massa, that's a . Hold your mug, you old nigger, says I, or I'll send your tongue a sarchin arter your teeth; keep quiet, and follow me in presently.
Half a dozen willing hands seized the dozing steed and roused it into madness. "Hi! stop 'er!" roared the cabman. "She's down!" shouted the excited crowd. "Tripped over 'er skirt," explained the slatternly woman. "They do 'amper you." "No, she's not. She's up again!" vociferated a delighted plumber, with a sounding slap on his own leg. "Gor blimy, if she ain't a good 'un!"
See wot I mean?" I said that I did. "An' another thing; talk like 'em." I confessed that this might prove to be rather a large contract. "'Ard? S'y! 'Ere! If I 'ad you fer a d'y, I'd 'ave you talkin' like a born Lunnoner! All you got to do is forget all them aitches. An' you don't want to s'y 'can't, like that. S'y 'cawrn't." I said it. "Now s'y, 'Gor blimy, 'Arry, 'ow's the missus?" I did.
"Gor blimey, Guv'nor," he ejaculated, "what sorter gime d'you call that?" "It's all right, driver," said Tommy gravely. "We found him insulting this gentleman's sister." The driver, who evidently had a nice sense of chivalry, at once came round to our side. "Was 'e? the dirty 'ound!" he observed. "Well, you done it on 'im proper. You ain't drowned 'im, 'ave ye, gents?" "Oh no," I said.
At the sound of the laugh the woman drew back hastily. "By gor!" she gasped; "the she's gone daffy!" The men turned toward them with wonder in their faces. Bill was the first to comprehend. He saw the girl's face grow sober with an effort, and realised that she was checking her amusement because it was sure to offend.
As for the ends of the flukes, have them soused, cook. There, now ye may go." But Fleece had hardly got three paces off, when he was recalled. "Cook, give me cutlets for supper to-morrow night in the mid-watch. D'ye hear? away you sail, then. Halloa! stop! make a bow before you go. Avast heaving again! Whale-balls for breakfast don't forget." "Wish, by gor! whale eat him, 'stead of him eat whale.
Took her too! and towed her into Falmouth Roads, all standin, like a kid leadin its mother by the and. Talk o Cochrane and the Speedy! Gor blime! what's he alongside us?" He steadied suddenly. "Ush! ere comes the old man." The boy could hear the stump of a stick on the deck. "What's he wearin?" whispered the other, peering. "You can most always tell the lay he's on by that.
"'Thrue for you, Captain darlint, says I I called him darlint, and made free with him, you see, bekase disthress makes us all equal 'thrue for you, Captain jewel God betune uz and harm, I own no man any spite' and, throth, that was only thruth. Well, the last bishkit was sarved out, and, by gor, the WATHER ITSELF was all gone at last, and we passed the night mighty cowld.
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