human
Oh, well, indeed, he hurriedly went on,
gpt
I did a bit of painting for them, and my friend on board gives me a chance to slip the coppers at Montreal.
human
Yes, said somebody,
gpt
There was indeed, there was some kind of scrimmage. Michael looked up with his one eye at the man whose expression in listening was different from that of all the other listeners.
human
You been over with me before, haven't ye?
gpt
Tell us about the scrap you had with the bo'sun going forward!
human
No, indeed, Michael declared.
gpt
I'll drop that bit out. I've told the story so often that I don't know myself now which is the right way of it and which is the wrong way.
human
Oh, indeed, there was a fight all right, he assured them.
gpt
But I've told about it different ways. I sometimes wonder myself now if I came off best.
human
Indade, of course, of course, Mike spoke, lying stretched upon his top bunk, near the door, head on hand, lenient and understanding.
gpt
You got over anyhow, and you didn't get put in the clink, and there's much to be thankful for.
human
Oh, we're only cattlemen,
gpt
Lend us your mouth organ!
human
Rule Britannia! As he played there was a movement among those near the door. Candlass was there, but he lingered outside until the air was finished and then--
gpt
Feed and water, boys,
human
Come on wid youse, lower deck!
gpt
Push. Free of liquor, and of the after effects of liquor, the largeness of heart of many was evident, though perhaps there was something morbid, as well as of kindly interest, in their sympathy that they lavished on little Michael. He had his head turned over it, spent most of his spare time sitting on the edge of his bunk, holding up his head to let them look at his eye under the shade. Cockney and he, if they had not yet made friends exactly, had allowed the matter of their fight on the poop to be as an ancient matter now forgotten. The bad eye might have been the result of an accident for all that was said about Cockney by those who looked at it; indeed Cockney was the only one who seemed to recall the origin of it. He sat apart, looking a little ashamed during these examinations of the injured member; but his shame soon began to give way to jealousy, for had he not a bandage on his head--had he not an interesting ear that might be pried at? Yet, take it by and large, as seamen say, a feeling of amicability came to the ship--that is to say by comparison with the spirit that had inhabited it so far. Had any quietist been spirited aboard upon an Arabian carpet he might well have been excused for stepping hastily on to it again, and most hastily murmuring the incantations that would speed his departure; but for those who had seen the
human
Push
gpt
Push and explain that he had come down in the world, that he had a son in the Household Cavalry, six foot three, with a fist that would fell an ox.
human
If my son was on board, he would say, and glare, and if the glare was returned:
gpt
Oh, not that I mean anything,