Commodore Junk — page 213: what you’re looking at

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206 COMMODORE JUNK. “Sure, and I wouldn’t go back to England to get that, sor. I’d sooner shtop here. The skipper’s always telling Bart to look afther ye well.” “Why ?” said Humphrey, sharply. “Why?” said Dinny, scratching his head ; “pcrhaps he wants to get ye in geod condition before ye’re hung.” “Hung?” “ Yis, sor. That’s what Black Mazzard says.” “Tg that the man who tried to cut me down with a boarding- axe?” “That’s the gintleman, sor; and now let me put ye tidy, and lay yer bed shtraight. Sure, and ye’ve got an illigant cabin here, as is good enough for a juke. Look at the orniments on the walls.” “ Are there any more places like this ?” “ Anny more! Sure, the wood’s full of ’em.” “ But about here?” ‘“ About here! Oh, this is only a little place. Sure, weall live here always when we ar’n’t aboard the schooner.” “Ah, yes! The schooner. She was quite destroyed, was she not?” ‘“‘Divil a bit, sor. Your boys didn’t shoot straight enough. The ship ye came in was, afther we’d got all we wanted out of her. She was burnt to the wather’s edge, and then she sank off the reef.” Humphrey groaned. “Ye needn’t do that, sor, for she wasa very owld boat, and not safe for a journey home. Mak’ yer mind aisy, and mak’ this yer home. There’s plinty of room for ye, and—whisht! here’s the captain coming. What’ll he be doing here ?” “The captain!” cried Humphrey. ‘Then that man took my message.” “What message, sor?” Comichooksneo =