Part 15 (1/2)
”What!” cried Aleck ”That's as good as saying that if I fish along here you'll sink h as so boulder stone”
”Then I tell you what it is, Master Eben Megg If any daull you'll have to answer for it before the a ofnever interferes with you and the captain and never interferes about your ketching a bit o' fish or taking a few eggs so long as you are civil; but you're on'y foreigners and intruders and don't belong to these parts, and we do”
”Well, of all the iht the whole of the Den estate right down to the sea! Don't you know that you're intruders and trespassers when you co your seine on the sandy patch off the little harbour?”
”No, youngster, I don't; but I do know as you're getting a deal too sarcy, and that I' to stop it, and my nantly ”What do you mean?”
”I mean that if you want to fish off our shore and wants a ot to ask soged cripples spying and poking about our ground”
”Spy? What is there to spy?” said Aleck, giving the man a peculiar look
”Never youabout here with none of your glasses”
Aleck laughed derisively
”Ah, you ,” said theand peering about, and I caught yer at it”
Aleck laughed again
”Oh! that's what you think, is it?” he said
”Yes, and it's what I says; so be off ho of the kind, Eben,” said the boy, hotly ”I've a better right here than you have, and I shall co, youngster; and I won't have it”
”Then it's all true, eh?” said the boy, ly
”What's true?” snarled thethe caverns--Hollands gin or French brandy? Perhaps it's silk or velvet No, no; I know
But you can't think that How do you reat casks?”
”I dunno what you're talking about, youngster--do you?”
”Thoroughly But aren't the tobacco casks too big and too heavy to haul up the cliffs?”
”Look here, young fellow,” growled the man; ”none o' your nonsense
You'd better be off before you get hurt That's your way back”
”Is it?” said Aleck ”Then I' back till I choose I say, should you talk like this to one of the Revenue sloop's men if he came ashore?”