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"I am indeed very jolly," said Robin, with a bland smile, "for I'm going to help to lay the great Atlantic Cable." "Wot's that you say?" demanded the lad, with sudden animation. Robin repeated his remark. "Well, now, that is a go! Why, I'm goin' to help lay the great Atlantic Cable too. I'm one the stooard's boys. What may you be, young feller?" "Me? Oh!

I've seen the sky like that lots o' times, all silver and gold, and pale blue and grey. I say, seems a pity; we've got lots o' crockery ware in the stooard's place. Them shells would make lovely plates, painted ten hunderd times better than those we've got aboard. It's just as if natur had made 'em o' purpose.

No," whispered the old sailor, with a low chuckle, "I beckoned to one of 'em, and he come down off the rail where he'd been sitting in a row like a tame monkey with his mates, and he followed me, club in hand, to the stooard's place, where I got a big jar and a table fork, and brought it back on deck to where his mates were waiting, and down they hopped as soon as they saw the jar, and began to dance round, singing, `'ticky!

"I don't believe I have, Bostock," said the doctor, smiling. "Thought not, sir. So what do you say to going and looking up the stooard's and the cook's quarters and seeing what we can find?" "Yes, Bostock, the wisest thing we can do, and I must be thinking about my patient too. I must not let him starve."

As he said this he gradually fell back on the cushion he was resting against, and his eyes closed. Captain Applegarth and I both thought him dead. Not so, however, Garry O'Neil. "Sure, he's ounly fainted," exclaimed the Irishman; "run, Dick, me bhoy, an' say if there's sich a thing as a stooard's pantry knockin' about anywheres in those latituodes, wid a dhrop of water convanient.

It don't seem nat'ral to stand by and see the stooard's mate doing things for the lad as he'd, ask me to do if he could speak." "Ah! he mostly come to you, Bob Bostock, when he wanted a bit o' fishing-line or anything o' that kind." "He did," said the old sailor, "and glad I allus was to help him. Maybe we are going to have a blow to-night, and if it comes so much the better.