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'My name is 'Uish, sir, returned the clerk, and blushed in turn. 'Ah! said Attwater. And then turning again to Herrick, 'Do you bear out Mr Whish's description of your vintage? or was it only the unaffected poetry of his own nature bubbling up?
"My real name is Herrick. No more Hay" they had both used the same alias, "no more Hay than yours, I daresay." "Clean bowled in the middle stump!" laughed the clerk. "My name's 'Uish, if you want to know. Everybody has a false nyme in the Pacific. Lay you five to three the captain 'as."
And for that I'm going to 'ave you write a letter, in w'ich you s'y you're ashymed to meet his eye, and that the bearer, Mr. J. L. 'Uish, is empowered to represent you. Armed with w'ich seemin'ly simple expedient, Mr. J. L. 'Uish will proceed to business." He paused, like one who had finished, but still held Davis with his eye. "How?" said Davis. "Why?"
''Errick was right and you know it. Give 'im a chanst, I says. 'Uish, sezee, 'don't you gimme no more of your jaw, or I'll knock your bloomin' eyes out. Well, wot can I do, 'Errick? But I tell you, I don't 'arf like it. It looks to me like the Sea Rynger over again." Still Herrick was silent. "Do you 'ear me speak?" asked Huish sharply. "You're pleasant, ain't you?"
And for that I'm going to 'ave you write a letter, in w'ich you s'y you're ashamed to meet his eye, and that the bearer, Mr J. L. 'Uish, is empowered to represent you. Armed with w'ich seemin'ly simple expedient, Mr J. L. 'Uish will proceed to business. He paused, like one who had finished, but still held Davis with his eye. 'How? said Davis. 'Why?
"'Errick was right, and you know it. Give 'im a chanst," I says. "Uish," sezee, "don't you gimme no more of your jaw, or I'll knock your bloomin' eyes out." Well, wot can I do, 'Errick? But I tell you, I don't 'arf like it. It looks to me like the Sea Rynger over again. Still Herrick was silent. 'Do you hear me speak? asked Huish sharply. 'You're pleasant, ain't you?
'My real name is Herrick. No more Hay' they had both used the same alias 'no more Hay than yours, I dare say. 'Clean bowled in the middle stump! laughed the clerk. 'My name's 'Uish if you want to know. Everybody has a false nyme in the Pacific. Lay you five to three the captain 'as.
"My name is 'Uish, sir," returned the clerk, and blushed in turn. "Ah!" said Attwater. And then turning again to Herrick, "Do you bear out Mr. Whish's description of your vintage? or was it only the unaffected poetry of his own nature bubbling up?"
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