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You be only a dreamin' about 'em. That's why I've shook you up." "I'm glad you have waked me. Oh! it was a frightful dream! I thought they had done it, Ben." "Done what, Will'm?" "What they were going to do." "Dash it, no, lad! they an't ate you yet; nor won't, till they've first put an end o' me, that I promise ye."
"I don't exactly know," sez I, "but I rather fancy that there barrel bears that name." The little man went up to the barrel, and seemed regularly all took aback when he saw the address, and then he pitched into us for not having brought what he wanted. "I don't care a damn what you want," sez I to him, "but if you are Will'm Bent Pitman, there's your barrel."
It could not be an illusion. Either a talking mermaid, or a little girl, was within earshot of the raft. There was no help for it: Ben must be aroused. "Ben! Ben!" "Ho hah ow aw what's the row? seven bells, I bean't on the dog-watch. Hi, hi, oh! it's you, little Will'm. What is't, lad?" "Ben, I hear something." "Hear somethin'! Well, what o' that, boy?
"We're lost, Will'm!" cried he, without waiting for a repetition of the sound; "we're lost. It's the voice of Le Gros. The big raft is a bearin' down upon us wi' them bloodthirsty cannibals we thought we'd got clear o'. It's no use tryin' to escape. Make up your mind to it, lad; we've got to die! we've got to die!"
It sound like as if she wur talkin' to some un. What the Ole Scratch can it mean, Will'm?" "I don't know. Could it be a mermaid?" "Could it? In course it could." "But are there mermaids, Ben?" "Maremaids! Be theer maremaids? That what you say? Who denies there ain't? Nobody but disbelevin land-lubbers as never seed nothin' curious, 'ceptin' two-headed calves and four-legged chickens.
"It mout," answered the sailor. "I warn't thinkin' o' them. It mout be; an' if so, we han't so much to fear as from t' other 'uns. They arn't so hard up, I should say; or even if they be, there arn't so many o' 'em to bully us. There were only five or six o' them. I should be good for any three o' that lot myself; an' I reckon you an' Will'm here could stan' a tussle wi' the others. Ah!
"If there hadn't been gulls, an' boobies, an' Mother Carey's chickens, as squeals and chitters just like little childer, I'd a been puzzled at what ye be a tellin' me; but as I knows there be all o' these creators in the middle o' the broad ocean, and mermaids too, I dare say, then, ye see, little Will'm, I must disbelieve that ye heard anything more than the voice of a man, by !"
This idea occurred to me as I stood gazing at it, and Ben had a similar fancy. "Dang it, Will'm!" said he, stepping nearer to it, "it be a door, I believe," and then, leaning forward, and striking it with his fist, he exclaimed: "Shiver my timbers, if 'tan't a door! Listen, lad! d'ye hear that? it sounds as hollow as a empty cask!"
Kin you splain dat, Mars Will'm?" "Don't you think I know a general when I see one?" exclaimed the boy scornfully. "He had yellow and gilt on his sleeves, and he carried a sabre, and he rode first of all. And oh, Mose! He's coming here to pay me a visit! Perhaps he'll come to-night; he said he would if he could." "Dat gin'ral 'low he gwine come here?" muttered the darky.
If he be a dreamin' that way he'll be better awake. It's a pity, too, for he an't had enough sleep." "Oh! they will kill me and eat me. Oh, oh!" "No, they won't do neyther, blow'd if they do. Will'm, little Will'm! rouse yourself, my lad." And as he said this he bent down and gave the sleeper a shake. "O Ben! is it you? Where are they, those monsters?" "Miles away, my boy.
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