human
Hello, Senex, you here again?
gpt
Yes; and damn near broke, too.
human
Cripes! You're not the only pebble on the beach. We are, too.
gpt
Well, what are you going to do about tucker?
human
Reckon the best thing we can do is to have what you sailor blokes call a tarpaulin muster, said Jim.
gpt
What you got, Bill?
human
Oh! seven and a sprat.
gpt
we lived eight days on that lot, till the strike finished and work started. Jim had built a fish trap, which was mainly responsible for our success, the river teeming with fish of all sorts. I was duly appointed deckhand on one of the tugs, powerfully engined but slightly ancient. The bloke in charge was rather a martyr to liver complaint, but he was ordinarily so decent that one could easily be tactful, and pass over the livery bouts. The engineer was German, but when the war started he became
human
Hanoverian
gpt
would suddenly change to a series of terrific bangs. A wail of despair from below.
human
It's der whackum (vacuum) agin! Then would we tie up to the handiest wharf and effect repairs, with much banging of hammers and clashing of tools thrown angrily about. Next day, perhaps, we would haul a punt off a shallow place, stirring up much mud. A few minutes later a powerful smell of burning rubber, and loud oaths in a strong German accent, would apprise us of another disaster. Up would come the
gpt
tearing his hair and dancing on his cap.
human
What's wrong, Franz?
gpt
Blitzen und picklehaubes! Der Cotdom gon-denzer iss choged vit zand!!
human
Well, clear the damn thing then. What'r'ye makin' such a fuss for?
gpt
But der rupper backing iss burnt!
human
Well, says the skipper, with a disgusted look.
gpt
Want me to give you one o' m' boots to mend it with? Put a new bit of rubber in!
human
and it
gpt
pretty often, in fact nearly every day for a month, and Franz talked wildly of
human
This statement roused old Tom (the skipper) to ribald contumely.
gpt
What! You 'shuck' your 'yob.' Why! a bloomin' charge of dynamite wouldn't shift you, and you know it, and (with bitter emphasis)