Part 6 (1/2)
”I feel sure he would, Tom”
”Well, Master Aleck, I dessay you knows best, but come I will if you'd like me to, sir”
”Yes, I know that, Too in alone”
”Think so, sir?”
”Yes, I'ht, sir It seehtforward like Not as Ifor one till the row's over
D'yer see?”
”Yes, I see, Toh for o in and face uncle at once, and for you not to wait to be paid for this journey”
”Oh, I don't want no paying, my lad, for a little job like this Think of the tiht!”
”But uncle said you were to be paid, Tom”
”Very well, sir Let hiht You'll be sending a rock through the boat's planks afore long, and I shall have to co in
The captain will pay ood bit this reach Strikes me that the wind's more abeam than e started”
”Is it?” said Aleck, drearily, and he felt that it would have been farso fiercely that they would be compelled to put back to Rockabie, and his return home deferred to another day
As it was, it becae was reat promontory, while the current that rushed round the point and raced outas so callided round and into sht, and, hat seemed to the lad like horrible rapidity, they ran in under the rocks and passed the regular rookery of sea-birds, whose cries were deafening when they were close in
”Say when,” cried the sailor, who had given up the tiller to Aleck and stepped forward ready to lower the sail
”Now!” cried the lad, dismally, a few minutes later; and down calided in between the talls of perpendicular rock, running in for some little distance before it beca by ht into her little haven
Here Toer was quite at ho about inside, and then hopping off one of the thwarts on to the rocks, ready to takethe boat's painter to the big ring-bolt, and then taking one side while Aleck took the other and swinging her right up on to the rocks
”There we are, then,” said the sailor, a fewShall I put thee?”
”No, no, Tom,” said Aleck, disive theht, Master Aleck, for they begin to look as if they'd been too long in the bucket”
This latter was eap towards the opening into the sunk garden To over the stones like the rock-hopper penguin
”I'll slip off now, Master Aleck, case the captain arden,” whispered the sailor
”Yes, you'd better go now, Tom Do I look so very bad?”