Commodore Junk — page 116: what you’re looking at

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THE PURSUIT, 109 “ How beautiful!” said Jack, gazing thoughtfully at the glorious scene, and asking herself whether that was to be her future home. “ An’ d’yer caal that beautiful ?” said Dinny, contemptuously_ “Young man, did ye iver see Dublin Bay?” “No,” said Jack, smiling in the earnest face before him. “Nor the Hill of Howth?” Jack shook his head. ‘Then don’t call that beautiful again in me presence,” said Dinny. “Puts me in mind of Black Pool,” said Bart, thoughtfully. Further conversation was checked by the interest of landing, the boat being run up on the shore and hidden among the rocks, not that it was likely that 1t would be seen, but the position of the fugitives and the dread of being retaken made them doubly cautious, Bart even going so far as to obliterate their footprints on the sand. ‘“* Now, then,” said Dinny, “ you’ve got the mushket and the bagnet, and those two make one; but if I was you I’d cut down one of them bamboos and shtick the bagnet an that, which would make two of it, and it would be a moighty purty tool to kill a pig.” The hint was taken, Bart soon cutting down a long, straight lance shaft and forcing it into the socket of the bayonet. “Then next,” said Dinny, “if I was captain I should say let’s see about something to ate.” ‘© Hear that, Abel?” said Bart. ‘“Yes, I was thinking of how we could get down some cocoa-nuts. There are plenty of bananas.” ‘“‘ Hapes,” put in Dinny ; “ and there’s a cabbage growing in the heart of ivery one of thim bundles of leaves on the top of a shtick as they call palms ; but thim’s only vegetables, captain, dear, and me shtomach is asking for mate.” Gomicbooks