Part 62 (1/2)
”Hu it rather, haven't I?”
”Doing nothing else but growl”
”That's the worst of having a nasty teood either, does it?”
”Not a bit,” said Aleck ”Makes things still worse”
”Think so?”
Aleck nodded
”Yes, I suppose you're right I'll drop it then Now, then, what do you say to having a good long snooze?”
”I'hly tired out”
”Put out the light then My word, what a good thing sleep is!” said the midshi+pman, after they had lain in silence for a few et all your troubles”
There was a pause, and then the et all your troubles, doesn't it?”
Still silence
”Don't you hear what I say?”
No answer
”Hanged if he isn't asleep! How a fellow can be such a dormouse-headed aniht to have known, aupon his back, fast asleep and breathing hard, dreas, so free
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
The next day the two lads could only think of their atteh they did not quite grasp the narrowness of their escape from death, had resulted in a peculiar shock to their system, one effect of which was toestion of dawn in the direction of the subood deal, while even on the following day they both suffered a good deal froh, Aleck roused up
”Look here, sailor,” he said, ”this will not do We ought to be doing soain to drown ourselves?”
”Oh, no; that was a bit of ain”
”What then? It see to sleep till we don't wake again”
”What!” shouted Aleck, his coic state ”Well, of all the cowardly things for a fellow to say!”
”Cowardly!” cried the alvanised into action by the sound of that word ”You want to quarrel, then, do you? You want to fight, eh? Very well, I'ht the lanthorn and have it out at once”
”Oh, very well,” cried Aleck ”There's a nice soft bit of sand yonder that will just do”
The an to breathe hard, while Aleck, feeling regularly angry now, felt for the tinder-box andin showers