human
Circ'lation's a-coming back, youngster, he said.
gpt
I say, did you kill that young Walters?
human
Walters! I cried.
gpt
I'd forgotten all about him. I didn't see or hear anything of him.
human
Dessay not, sir. He'd get out of the way while the row was on. Maybe he'd got into a bunk to have a snooze and didn't hear it. But, I say, what a game!
gpt
What, our re-taking the ship, Barney?
human
No; you thinking I was Frenchy. Well, it's lucky you didn't heave me overboard.
gpt
Coming round, mate?
human
Ay, my lad, I've got one arm and a bit o' one leg back, and toothers is coming back slowly like, but it's rum work feeling nothing but head and body, and your arms and legs all gone dead at first, and then you begins to know as they arn't been cut off and chucked away, and they're still there. They was just like sleeves and stockings stuffed with sorduss, and people making cushions of 'em and sticking the pins in as hard as ever they can.
gpt
I'm so sorry, Barney,
human
Ay, lad, I s'pose you are, and seeing as you thinked it was old Frenchy, I don't wonder as you tied them there knots as hard as ever you could. But what I do wonder at is, that the line didn't cut my legs right off. Shows as my muscles must be made of real good stuff, and when I've done rubbing 'em back into shape, I s'pose they'll come all right once more; but I should have liked to be in the fun.
gpt
Get your pincushions all right, messmate, said Bob Hampton, slapping Barney on the back,
human
Think there'll be any more fighting, matey?
gpt
Think there'll be any more fighting? Just hark at him, gentlemen. Why, you grumbling old swab, do you think as, once having hold of the Burgh Castle and calling hisself skipper, old Frenchy's the sort o' man to let a few planks and a hatchway keep him from making another try? You wait a bit, old man, if you're so precious anxious to get yourself made sore. Frenchy won't forget us for gammoning him, and pretending to be on his side.
human
I ain't hankshus to be made sore, Bob, old matey, growled Barney;
gpt
All right then, Mr Brymer 'll see as you has one, I dessay.