Part 50 (1/2)

Meanwhile Mark was talking to Toht to have punished the one ear, ”I do and don't, sir What's to be done with chaps like that, as don't know no better?”

”Exactly,” cried Mark ”They fought for us as well as they could”

”They have, sir, and it ain't as if they'd had a twelvemonth of the first luff to drill 'ehtn't have been able to fight agin sleep Able seaular black just picked out of a slaver's hold?”

”That will do, then,” said Mark ”You have helped ainst your advice”

”Don't you be afeared of that, sir,” cried Toentle Well, sir, what about the prisoners now?”

”I think theyback to the cask, and giving a pull at it, to find it as solid as so much iron

”Well, sir, that's what I think; but don't you trust 'eain”

”And we mean that they shan't, Toest position, we ive me the watch there by the fo'c'sle hatch, I'll proo to sleep”

”Take the watch, then,” said Mark; and then suddenly, ”Why, what does that an in chorus to whistle an A of hands

Then the sound ended as quickly as it had begun, and there was a hearty burst of laughter

”Merry, eh?” said Tom Fillot ”Well, there's no harm in that”

They listened in the darkness, and one an a plantation ditty, his co chorus at the end of every verse, clapping their hands and sta up and breaking into a kind of jig or hornpipe, evidently keeping it up till he was tired, when, with a shout, another ht

The listeners had to trust to their ears for all this, but it was perfectly plain, and it see the Americans had determined to make the best of their position

This went on for soreat spirit and a tremendous amount of noise, sufficient to ood deal ofwent on

The sounds ceased, and there was a hail from the forecastle

”Hey, there, yew, on the watch!”

”Hullo! What is it?” cried To skipper to pitch us down a little 'bacco, will you, mister? My lads here is out, and they want to htn't to let theht Mark; ”but it may keep them quiet I hope they will not set the shi+p on fire”

So a roll of tobacco was thron to theh the ventilator, pipes were evidently lit, for the strong fuain an to feel annoyed

”The brutes!” he said to hiht Ah, well, they're prisoners, so I will not be too hard upon them”