Part 17 (2/2)
”Didn't you and the skipper find three kegs?”
”Yes, but they o”
”Why, of course, o and tell the skipper so How I do hate being sent upon a wild-goose chase like this!”
The rest of the journey to the cove was performed almost in silence; they then eh to take the rest of the burden of their journey on their hands and ar in their favour
”Yes, I do hate these jobs,” said theand winking to one another as ent by their cottages?”
”Yes, I did see sohing at us, and knoe should find out nothing, while they knew all the ti plainly visible as the boat approached the cutter was the head of Tally gazing contemplatively at them over the side, as if anxious to knohat news there was from home, and directly after Ram and Jemmy looked over in a quiet stolid way, as if not troubled in the least by the fact that they were prisoners
”Well, Mr Raystoke,” cried the lieutenant, as the young o and left two e, eh?”
”No, sir”
”Tut--tut--tut! What is the use of having you for ht to have searched everywhere, and found it”
”We did search everywhere, sir, nearly, but didn't find it”
”Oh! What's that? Nearly? Then where didn't you search?”
Archy told him and his reasons
”Humph! Ha! Well, I don't know: Government has no bowels of coht to have searched the Gloves”
”Hoze, sir, Hoze”
”Oh well, gloves, hose, gloves, all the same; only one's for downstairs, the other up Stupid name for a place”
”You think, then, I haven't done my duty, sir”
”Yes, Mr Raystoke, as an officer I do; but as a gentleman I'm afraid I think I should have done just the saht”
”And you let your ao must be run to earth”
”But is it quite certain, sir, that there was a cargo run?”
”My good fellow,” cried the little lieutenant i on the beach, wouldn't you feel sure that it had once had a sheep in it?”
”Yes, sir, if it was a sheepskin”