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Came a medley of drunken questions: "W'ot's th' matter? Who bloodied your bloomin' eyes? W'ot 'appened?" "That Hamerican chap!" bawled Galton savagely. "'E 'it me for 'elpin' 'im make a fire! Goin' to see me run over an' killed?" "Faith Oi didn't see nawthin'," panted Malone, fresh from his dance "Won't you stan' by a Hinglishman?" shouted the battered one. "Sure we will!" "We're Hinglish!"
"W'ot's wicey wersa, Mr Wright?" "Oh, it means the terms being changed turned the other way, you know back to the front, as it were in short, I mean the battery being in America and the bit of iron in Ireland." "Well, well, who'd a thought there was so much in wicey wersa; but go on, Mr Wright."
Lord love me! they ain't worth the trouble o? gatherin' w'ot's left on 'em, Mr. Belloo sir." "So bad as that, Adam?" "Bad! ah, so bad as ever was, sir!" said Adam, blinking suspiciously, and turning suddenly away. "Has Miss Anthea seen, does she know?" "Ah! she were out at dawn, and Oh Lord, Mr. Belloo sir! I can't never forget her poor, stricken face, so pale and sad it were.
The noise he heard was the swift displacement of water. For some unaccountable reason, the vessel glided southward at a speed of eight or ten knots. In the uproar forward, Madden heard the cries: "Th' dinghy's swamped!" "We carn't reach 'er!" "Cut 'er loose and jump!" "We couldn't right 'er in th' water!" "Cut 'er and jump! Quick! 'Eaven knows w'ot's got us!" "Steady!
"If the crew's gone, sir," mumbled one of the men, as he paid out the rope, "w'ot's the use goin' across?" "To get to the tug, of course." "An'w'ot'll we do?" Madden looked hard at the cockney. "Get the provisions aboard if nothing else." "There wasn't none on the Minnie B, sir." "What's the Minnie B got to do with the Vulcan?