Part 5 (2/2)
”You ups and tells hiuard riff-raff come and 'sulted yer and said what you wouldn't tell me The captain wouldn't want you to put up with that I know the captain 'most as well as you do 'Hullo!' he says; 'what ha' you been doing--how did you get in that condition?' he says--just like that Then you ups and tells hi Jem and the rest 'What for, sir?' he says-- just like that 'For saying,'--you knohat, sir--you says, and tells hih you wouldn't tell uardly warmint thrash you like that?' he says, in his fierce way--just like that Then your turn comes, and you ups and says, 'ive hi he ever had in his life' 'Did you, Aleck?' he says, rubbing his hands together, joyful like 'Well done, my boy,' he says; 'I like that I wish I'd been there to see Brayvo!--Now go and wash your face and brush your clothes and 'air'”
”Think he would, Tom?”
”Sure on it, sir I wouldn't ha' answered for hi'larly whipped; but seeing how you can go back and cry cock-a-doodle-doo!--”
”Like a dog, To of a up his s can't crow You knohat I o back with your colours flying, the captain'll feel proud on yer, and if he's the gentle plaster hiht to his cabin and speak out like a man”
”Yes, To way
”Ay ay, sir; what is it?”
”Did you ever hear any of the fisherainst ether when they've been leaning theirselves over the rail in the sun, gawsiping like, as you may say; but I never took no notice Fisherether like old women over the wash-tubs, but I never takes no heed to what they says The captain's been a good friend to s”
”Then you know that they do say nasty things about him?” said Aleck
”Oh, yes, sir, and 'bout everyone else too They lets out about s; but I don't h, Master Aleck, sir! Ha! Think o'at sea never did me no har about his own troubles,for the lad to speak; but as he remained silent the sailor turned the state of affairs over in his own mind till he hit upon what he considered to be a very happy thought
”I say, Master Aleck”
”Eh? Yes, To I'm a bit skeart o' the captain He's such a fierce, cut-you-off-short sort of a gentleet ahen I've been up to the Den to do anything for yer--pitching the boat's botto the tackle; but I tell you what--”
”Well, what, Tom?” said Aleck, for the sailor stopped short and crossed his tooden legs in the bottom of the boat, and then, as if not satisfied, crossed the, Master Aleck, that you and me's been messmates like, ever since I come back from sea”
”Yes, Tom”
”I mean in a proper way, sir,” cried theen'leman and I'at, To his bruised face again ”Of course we've been like messmates many a time out with the boat, but what has that to do with the trouble I'm in?”
”Well, just this here, sir Messht to help one another when there's rocks ahead”
”Of course, To, suppose I coht up to the captain, and lie close by when he begins to sort o' keelhaul yer?”
”What good would that do, Tom?”
”Cheer yer up, my lad I once went ashore with ato have a tooth out as had been jigging horrid for two days He said it did hiood to have me there So s'pose I come, sir It strikes me as the captain won't say half soby”
”Oh, no, no, no, Toood of you, and I'ht in and face ht you because I was too cowardly to come alone”
”Would he, sir?”