human
Another half-inch, however, and we might have had a different tale to tell of you,
gpt
How so?
human
Why, that you would have been turned into a piece of charcoal, instead of being restored to sight. There is something to think of, my boy, for the rest of your days.
gpt
I hope they've not been after killing a pig aboard, remarked Pat.
human
They may not get off so cheap as we have.
gpt
What do you mean?
human
Why, for what we can tell, one of them zig-zag flashes may have struck her, and sent her down to Davy's locker, or fired her magazine and blown her up sky high.
gpt
I hope that's not Captain Adair's fate, observed Jerry Bird.
human
I've sailed with him many a day, and a better officer and a nicer gentleman does not command one of her Majesty's ships. When I have been on shore with him, he has been kind and friendly like, and looked after the interests of his men, seeing that they have plenty of grub when it was to be got. Never made us work when there was no necessity for it, and I should be sorry indeed if any harm happened to him.
gpt
They had often, during their early days, been inclined to give each other up for lost, and always met again,