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The Captain removed his hand from his face, looked at him with a remarkable expression of pity and tenderness, and took him by the hand, and shook it hard. 'No, thank'ee, said the Captain. 'Nothing. Only I'll take it as a favour if you'll part company for the present. I believe, brother, wringing his hand again, 'that, after Wal'r, and on a different model, you're as good a lad as ever stepped.
Just then, on looking round, I saw a man, who by his uniform I knew to be a naval surgeon, standing near me. "So I see you've saved me my work, gentlemen," he said, smiling. "You could not have acted better than you appear to have done; and, thanks to you, we shall soon have him all right again." "Thank'ee, Doctor, I've come round pretty well already," sung out the midshipman.
"Thank'ee, lass," said the captain, as he set down the sea-chest and seated himself thereon; "they're pretty enough to look at, d'ye see, but they're raither in the way just now, as my second mate once said of the rocks when we were cruising off the coast of Norway in search of a pilot." The ornaments were, however, removed sooner than anyone had anticipated.
'Have a roast fowl, said Mrs MacStinger, 'with a bit of weal stuffing and some egg sauce. Come, Cap'en Cuttle! Give yourself a little treat! 'No thank'ee, Ma'am, returned the Captain very humbly. 'I'm sure you're out of sorts, and want to be stimulated, said Mrs MacStinger. 'Why not have, for once in a way, a bottle of sherry wine?
"Nor your brother," said Adolphus. "Nor your father, Johnny," added Mr. Tetterby. "Are you wet, 'Dolphus, my boy?" said his father. "Come and take my chair, and dry yourself." "No, father, thank'ee," said Adolphus, smoothing himself down with his hands. "I an't very wet, I don't think. Does my face shine much, father?" "Well, it DOES look waxy, my boy," returned Mr. Tetterby.
I'll bring you some tobacco in the morning, if you like. My father's just got a new lot down from London." "Thanks, thank'ee kindly," said the Gaffer, overjoyed at the prospect.
'I think I see myself "bringing" him to your house, for a treat! Thank'ee all the same; but he's a little too near the top of the tree for that, Pecksniff. The good man pricked up his ears; his interest was awakened.
"Thank'ee, sir; I will," answered the man as I wheeled round, directed a long, scrutinising glance at the canvas, stepped off the grating and squinted into the binnacle, and finally resumed my perambulation of the deck. Now, here was a nice plot to face, and countermine!
Weller, lighting the pipe by the ingenious process of holding to the bowl thereof, between the tongs, a red-hot coal from the adjacent fire; and what's more, my dear, I shall manage to surwive it, if he don't come back at all. 'Ugh, you wretch! said Mrs. Weller. 'Thank'ee, my love, said Mr. Weller. 'Come, come, father, said Sam, 'none o' these little lovin's afore strangers.
"Go ashore!" echoed Captain Dunning. "Why, if you all go on at this rate, we'll never get ready for sea. However, you may go, but don't wander too far into the interior, and look out for elephants and wild men o' the woods, boys keep about the settlements." "Ay, ay, sir, and thank'ee," replied the two men, touching their caps as they retired.
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