human
What was them two saying to you?
gpt
Oh, just asking questions about where I had been, and all that sort of thing.
human
Huh! of disgust. They wheeled, and began the return balancing walk to the poop just in time to see
gpt
going down the companion-way. Mike brought up against the taffrail at the end of their march this time, and leaning back on it, said he:
human
I tell you what it is, Scholar. Them fellers think they're better than us cattlemen. They're tradesmen. I've seen enough--I don't need to listen to all they're saying, after what you tell me. They're tradesmen; indade, I expect they're ruddy plumbers. They've spotted you, you see. They're thinking to themselves: 'Here's a fellow on board here, and in the Ould Counthry we'd be putting gas pipes in his father's house, and he's down now, and we'll kick him.' Just the same way they would try to kick us too, if they didn't think we was down already, beyant the likes of them to kick, he added in a grim tone,
gpt
said Mike, for he felt there was more in his mind than he could express.
human
I would rather go on a boat with you, Scholar, than with thim, if it was a case of taking to the boats; and if it was a row on the waterfronts I'd rather have you with your back to the wall with me than them plumbers. You was born different, and you don't understand thim--ye see what I mane, and he waved his hand.
gpt
But you would niver roll a shipmate; and if it came to the bit, I can see it in your eye, Scholar, you'd hang on like a bulldog.