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An' wuth thot I got up, hod a wash an' a cup o' coffee, an' went tull the brudge. I took one look ot the bearun' o' Askthar Light. 'Twas nor'west-by- west, and the old Tryapsic down on the shoals. He was a eediot, thot mate-fellow. Ye could look overside an' see the duscoloration of the watter. 'Twas a close call for the old Tryapsic I'm tellun' ye.
Five munuts more an' the old Tryapsic would a-been funushed. "An' was ut no the same when we cleared the Straits tull the east'ard? Four hours would a-seen us guid an' clear. I was forty hours then on the brudge. I guv the mate his course, an' the bearun' o' the Askthar Light astern.
In the intense pause which followed as he waited with expectant, uplifted face a pause so deep even the sobbing sinners held their breath a dry, drawling, utterly matter-of-fact voice broke the tense hush. "S-a-y, Pill, ain't you a bearun' down on the boys a leetle too hard?" The preacher's extended arm fell as if life had gone out of it.
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