Part 26 (1/2)
”But we ought to be sure”
”Sure, sir? Why, we are sure, and they'll have to take it”
”Take _it_? Take what?”
”Physic, sir Never you mind about it any ot to take when the tiot to say is as I hopes they'll like it”
”Well, never mind that now, Tom What about my boat?”
”Oh, I'll see about her at once I'll stop and take care of her while you go up to the houses on the cliff yonder, and you says as you have had an accident with your boat and you wants Joney to coh”
”Very well Let's have a look first, though”
They stepped to the edge of the pier and looked down into the disabled boat, while the water being still and as clear as crystal, they could see through the broken thwart and the splintered jagged hole through the bottoh, and To a killick, Master Aleck; that's what did that Precious big 'un too Now, then, you be off and get they chaps here while I chews it over a bit about how I' to be dark afore I gets that done What d'yer say about walking over to the Den to tell the captain what's happened?”
”I say no, To over with me in the dark?”
”Not me, sir, and you needn't wherrit about what to do wi' ot her moored back in the creek, and creep under and sleep like a top You'll giveafore I start back?”
”Of course, of course, Tom There, I'll run off at once”
”Hold hard a moment, Master Aleck Mebbe you'll see them two beauties”
”I shouldn't wonder, To as innercent as a pair o' babbies, sir,” said Toot to do, sir, is look innercent too
You arn't going to suspeck theoing to wait till the right time comes”
”And we're quite sure, Tom?”
”That's it, Master Aleck; and then--physic”
Aleck laughed, in spite of the trouble he was in, for Tom's face was a study of mysterious humour and conspiracy of thean easy dog-trot along the pier towards the town
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
”Hole in her bottom?” said the friendly fisherman who had presented the brill, in answer to Aleck's application, ”and want her brought ashore?
Sewerly,fisherht met with a precisely similar reply, when the lad found the men collected with a number of their fellows outside one of the public-houses, where so on, and Aleck noted that their conversation ceased as soon as he appeared, several of thein sundry nods and winks
But the lad was too full of his boat trouble to dwell upon the business that seeether, and he led the way down to the harbour with his two fisher that all the rest of the party followed them