Part 56 (1/2)
”Of course How else could the slers have landed all this stuff?”
”Ittide then,” said the middy
”To be sure When's the next?”
”I don't know,” said the middy ”You do, of course?”
”Not I You're a pretty sort of a sailor not to knohen the next spring tide is”
”And you're a pretty sort of a felloho lives by the shore and don't know You see tides,” said Aleck, testily ”I know there are spring tides, and that soully; but I can't tell the tied sailor?”
”Yes”
”Then you'd better go and fetch him here”
”I wish I could,” said Aleck, sadly ”What's the good of wishi+ng?
Here, I' to eat”
”No, we mustn't do that,” said Aleck ”We had better eat as little as we can so as toas possible”
”No, we hadn't,” replied the hly ”We may just as well eat while we can There's plenty to keep us alive; but if we can't get out we shan't be able to live all the same”
”Why?”
The middy was silent for a few moments before he could master himself sufficiently, the horror that he as a sailor foresaw not having been grasped by his shore-going companion
”You haven't been to sea?” he said, at last, in quite a different tone
”Only about in ht of land, when you could put ashore at any time”
”Yes; but what do youa sailor, thinks about is his supply of fresh water”
”To be sure,” said Aleck ”I always take a little keg fro”
”Pity you didn't bring it here,” said the middy, dismally
”Eh? What do youto do for water as soon as those bottles are empty?”
It was Aleck's turn to be silent now, and in turn he was soht of that,” he said, and he felt as if a cold chill was running through hiive place to a hot feverish sensation, accompanied by thirst