human
I'll take home a pearl or two for luck!
gpt
If you ever get home, sir,
human
You'll go with us, won't you?
gpt
I'll go wherever you and Master Carl go, Master Mont, replied Stump,
human
He's all right, when you know him.
gpt
Is he? Then I don't want to know him.
human
Shall we have good sport, sir?
gpt
Most likely,
human
Are there many sharks about?
gpt
It is no use disguising the fact. The sea hereabouts swarms with them. I should not like to meet one under the waves. A pearl has been called by poets a tear of the sea, and anything more lovely around a maiden's neck cannot be conceived. I have a strong wish to hunt for those tears of the sea, and behold them growing in their shells, but Heaven protect us from the sharks.
human
What have you got there?
gpt
It's a reg'lar pig-sticker, isn't it, sir?
human
It does look as if it could give an ugly prod,
gpt
They call it a harpoon; thing for sticking whales. Me and Number One, that's the nigger as waits on us, is friends, sir, and he's given me this to fight the darned sharkses with.
human
Bravo, Stump!
gpt
It would be 'Bravo Stump,' if I could rip up an inch or two of that captain, and seize the blessed ship!