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"But that's all werry well," said Chips; "but it won't do. If I lost my adze or caulking-hammer overboard, I must have another, mustn't I?" No one answered, and he continued: "If you lost the rammer of the big gun, Billy Waters, or the corporal here hadn't got his bayonet, he'd want a new one; so why shouldn't we have a new orsifer?"
"Hold your noise!" said Waters; "don't you see the orsifer as leads you thinks there's a trap?" "Wheer? I don't see no trap. Wot sorter trap?" growled Tom Tully. "Will yer be quiet, Tommy!" whispered the gunner. "What a chap you are!"
"Say, lads, I'm getting tired of this here," said Tom Tully, bringing himself to an anchor on a patch of sand; "I'm as hot as I am dry. Where's our orsifer?" "I d'no," said another. "Ahoy! Billy Waters, ahoy-y-y!" "Ahoy!" came from amongst the rocks; and the gunner plodded up wiping his face, and another of the little party came at the same time from the other direction.
Tom Tully, I'm 'bout ashamed o' you. I shouldn't ha' thought as a fellow with such a pigtail as you've got to your headpiece would say such a thing of his orsifer." "Then what call's he got to go and desart us for like this here, messmet?" growled Tom Tully.
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