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Sit down and I'll dictyte." The captain took a seat and the pen, looked a while helplessly at the paper, then at Huish. The swing had gone the other way; there was a blur upon his eyes. "It's a dreadful business," he said, with a strong twitch of his shoulders. "It's rather a start, no doubt," said Huish. "Tyke a dip of ink. That's it. William John Hattwater, Esq. Sir:" he dictated.
Then when Cyrus come our little boy our first an' only one! why, when he come, I wuz jest so happy an' so grateful that if I had n't been a man I guess I 'd have hollered maybe cried with joy. Wanted to call the little tyke Bill, but Bill would n't hear to nothin' but Cyrus.
And now there's one thing sure: you and me are to be a pair of friends. I'm a kind of a henchman to Davie here; I'm like a tyke at his heels: and whatever he cares for, I've got to care for too and by the holy airn! they've got to care for me! So now you can see what way you stand with Alan Breck, and ye'll find ye'll hardly lose on the transaction.
This familiar name recalls the delightful story of "Rab and his Friends" in "Horæ Subsicivæ," with its naïve description of a very original "tyke" of a doggie a biography which had so lived in my recollection that when a queer little fluffy dumpling of a puppy was given me I could not help giving it the old familiar name, little knowing how aptly true the name would prove to be in after years.
Silks and jewels and brocades and pearls and gold! From the whole world they had taken tribute, until that world tried at last beyond bearing had risen in its might and ground the whole nest of vipers beneath its wrathful heel. Tyke looked at the young man quizzically. "Thinking of the pirate doubloons, Allen?" "Why not?" Drew defended himself, albeit a little sheepishly.
Then, in a tone that only Drew heard, he added: "What I don't like about it is that it shows there's brimstone in the old whale's hump yet. If there wasn't, the water would have sweetened long ago." Tyke and Ruth each took a few drops of the water, and then the party went on a little more soberly than before. The trees soon became more scattered, though the undergrowth was dense.
One moment she sat there with her burning face, staring helplessly before her, while people crowded round to shake hands with her and cried into her ears above the deafening tumult, "You'll have to tyke another turn, dear"; and then she burst into passionate weeping. "Stand avay! De lady's not fit to sing again," said some one, and she opened her eyes.
"Now take that box over there, for instance," continued Tyke, pointing to a stained and mildewed chest which bore all the marks of great age and rough handling. "That belonged to Manuel Gomez, dead ten year since. He went down in the Nancy Boardman when she was rounding the Cape. Big, dark, upstanding man he was, an' one of the best bo'suns that ever piped a watch to quarters in a living gale.
"Let us do the worrying about that," smiled the captain. "You've done your fair share already toward this adventure. We'll all share and share alike." "You bet we will," chimed in Tyke. "There wouldn't be any cruise at all if it hadn't been for you. Who suggested searching the box? Who translated the paper and the map? You've been the head and front of the whole thing from the beginning."
'While I acknowledge my obligation to you, sir, for the restoration of the badge of our family, I cannot but marvel that you have nowhere established your own crest, whilk is, I believe, a mastiff, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it, A talbot strong, a sturdy tyke.
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