Part 25 (2/2)
”Well, it does look like it now, Toh the boat”
”It weer, sir”
”But why should anyone do that? You don't think that a boy would have been guilty of such a bit of mischief as that?”
”What, Master Aleck?” cried the sailor, bursting into a loud guffaw
”Why, there arn't anything they Rockabie boys wouldn't do Why, they're hih a word for what they'd do”
”Oh, but this is too bad Why, the--the--”
”Stone, I should say it were, sir Bet a halfpenny as it was a ballast cobble as was hev down”
”But it ht have come down on you and killed you”
”Shouldn't wonder, sir”
”But you have no one with such a spite against you as to make him do that?”
”Haven't I, Master Aleck? Why, bless your innocence, there's dozens as would! I'd bet another halfpenny as that young beauty as I brought doith h to coen you, too,Jeh your boat for leathering hio”
”Tom!”
”Ah, you may shout 'Tom!' till you're as hoarse as a bull, Master Aleck, but that sees of it; and now I think more on it, that's about the course I means to steer Two on 'eish lads”
”Sculling hard?”
”Yes, the one who stood up in the boat orking the oar as hard as he could”
”Which means as he was in a hurry, sir”
”It did seem like it, Tom”
”On a hot day like this here, sir Boys, too, as wouldn't work a scull if they warn't obliged Why, they'd been and done it, and was cutting away as hard as they could”
”It does look likely, Tos of it now It were Big Je Redcap, warn't it?”
”One of the boys had on a red cap, Tom I remember now”
”Then don't you wherrit your head no more about it, Master Aleck It was them two as did it, and I shall put it down to their account”