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Updated: May 13, 2025
"W'y, don't you see? Ingratitood don't feel `thankee, w'ereas lockjaw not on'y don't feel but don't even say `thankee." A sudden tumult outside the prison here interrupted them. Evidently a crowd approached. In a few minutes it halted before the door, which was flung open, and four prisoners were thrust in, followed by several strong guards and the execrations of the crowd.
"We did not expect you nearly so soon," said Nigel, as they heartily shook hands. "It vas because zee vind freshen soon after ve set sail ant, zen, ve made a straight line for zis port, w'ereas you possibly crossed over, ant zen push down zee coast." "Exactly so, and that accounts for your overtaking us," said the hermit. "Is that the lad Baso I see down there with the crew of the prahu?" "It is.
Have I not heard of a Miss Weston, too, in connection with a work of some sort among sailors?" "Ay, no doubt ye have. She has a grand Institoot in Portsm'uth too, but she goes in for sailors only all over the kingdom w'ereas Miss Robinson goes in for soldiers an' sailors both, though mainly for the soldiers.
A man who goes a-shootin' with a fowlin'-piece or a Dutch gun must 'ave some sort o' capacity for shootin' mustn't 'e, sir?" "Well, I suppose he must." "W'ereas," continued Jerry, "a man who goes a-shootin' with a blunderbuss don't require no such qualification that's w'ere it is, sir." "D'you mean to say that you can't shoot?" asked Rivers, with a look of surprise.
I purfess to do anything, but nobody as yet has axed me to do nothin'. In the ways o' huntin' up wittles, howsever, I've plenty to do. It's hard lines, and yet I ain't extravagant in my expectations. Most coves require three good meals a day, w'ereas I'm content with one. I begins at breakfast, an' I goes on a-eatin' promiskoously all day till arter supper w'en I can get it." "Just so, Stiver.
"You're in luck, Ned," he remarked to himself, as he examined these treasures. "Now, old boy you 'aven't stole this 'ere purse, so you ain't a thief; you don't know w'ere Mrs S.T. lives, so you can't find 'er to return it to 'er. Besides, it's more than likely she won't feel the want of it w'ereas I feels in want of it wery much indeed.
"We did not expect you nearly so soon," said Nigel, as they heartily shook hands. "It vas because zee vind freshen soon after ve set sail ant, zen, ve made a straight line for zis port, w'ereas you possibly crossed over, ant zen push down zee coast." "Exactly so, and that accounts for your overtaking us," said the hermit. "Is that the lad Baso I see down there with the crew of the prau?" "It is.
If we take his plan, why, we'll starve in a reg'lar way, little by little, and p'raps spin out till we git to the Cape; w'ereas, if we take the other plan, we'll keep a little fatter on the first part of the voyage, mayhap, but we'll arrive at the end of it as dead as mutton, every man on us."
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