human
Fine night, mate,
gpt
Deed and it is so, answered De Vos, halting just opposite to us, and once more turning his scrutiny upon me.
human
Are you game for a dhrop of whiskey?
gpt
No use asking him--he's too love-sick just now to care for drink; he's parted with his sweetheart, and is off for the West-Indies by five in the morning from the Docks.
human
I've not seen you here before,
gpt
May be you have, may be you haven't. I don't need to ask any man's leave to drink a pint at 'Noah's Ark,' and watch a game of skittles.
human
I believe you, said De Vos with all the boastfulness of his nature.
gpt
You'll not see a betther bowler through the country entirely than meself. I'll back the odds against any man this side the Channel, and bedad to it. I dare say now it's here on Monday last you were to see me play?
human
Ay, ay, mate, sang out Jones;
gpt
Ah! thin it was small shiners I went in for then; but I'll lay a couple of fivers now against a brad, and play you fair to-morrow against any of them in there, with a back-handed wave to the house, whence unmistakable sounds of noisy mirth were proceeding.
human
Is it done?
gpt
I'll consider your offer--shiver my timbers but I will! said Jones, with a burst of Jack-tar-ism--
human
Just as you please; you pays your money and you takes your choice; and nodding to Jones, who responded to the salute in approved style, De Vos passed into the tap-room of the
gpt
Ark.
human
Is it he?
gpt
Yes, without doubt,
human
Then follow me, sir; and keep silent unless I speak to you;