human
You couldn't; I was here all the time,
gpt
Oh, was you? Didn't go round to the back to fetch taters, did you?
human
Of course. I forgot.
gpt
Ah, that's right, continued the man.
human
But I warn't satisfied then, for I says to myself, `Them poor beggars down below won't get the dose now, but I should like t'others to have a taste;' and to make sure as they did, I takes the tin as you'd got the lumps o' meat in, pours out all the pieces and fills it up from the tin they'd doctored, and filled it up again with the juice I'd poured out; now I says to myself, whichever lot they have'll give 'em what they meant for some one else-- and so it did. My word, they mixed it pretty strong.
gpt
Why, the tins were wet and sticky!
human
Course they was, mate; I had to be in such a hurry for fear of your coming back.
gpt
And I couldn't make out about that pan.
human
Hadn't time to wash it, messmate.
gpt
Then I gave the lads down below the soup the cabin was to have had?
human
You did.
gpt
And them in the cabin the soup and kangaroo they'd physicked?
human
That's so, matey, and their games are over again. You'll jyne us, won't you?
gpt
I? Join you? faltered the cook, looking across at me;
human
Let the lads out again. It's their turn now.
gpt
I shall wake up from this dream directly,