human
Yes, sir! he ejaculated.
gpt
You look to me like one o' the tidiest craft I ever clapped eyes on. I don't scarcely see how Abe could go away and leave you. Dunno's he's got an eye for a pretty woman like me. Bless you! I been a slave to the women all my life.
human
Yet never married, Uncle Amazon?
gpt
Tell you how 'twas, he whispered hoarsely, his hand beside his mouth.
human
I never could decide betwixt and between 'em. No, sir! They are all so desir'ble that I couldn't make up my mind. So I stayed single.
gpt
Perhaps you showed wisdom, Uncle Amazon, laughed the girl.
human
Still--when you grow old----
gpt
Oh! there's plenty of sailors' snug harbors, he hastened to say.
human
And time enough to worry about that when I _be_ old.
gpt
I thought----Why! you look younger than Cap'n Abe,
human
Ain't it a fact? He's let himself run to seed and get old lookin'. That's from stayin' ashore all his life. It's the feel of a heavin' deck under his feet that keeps the spring in a man's wishbone. Yes, sir! Abe's all right--good man and all that--but he's no sailor,
gpt
Now, here! he went on briskly,
human
I'll run to see if the biscuits are done,
gpt
What d'ye think of him?
human
Why, he's splendid! the girl replied scarcely stifling her laughter.
gpt
He's a _character_!
human
Humph! Mebbe. But even if he is your uncle, I got to say right now he ain't a man I'd trust. Nothin' a-tall like Cap'n Abe!
gpt
I think he seems a great deal like Uncle Abram.
human
Humph! How long you knowed Abram Silt? Come here yesterday for the fust time. Lemme tell you, Miss Grayling, we've knowed Cap'n Abe around here for twenty year and more. Course, he ain't Cardhaven born; but we know him. He's as diff'rent from this pirate that calls himself Cap'n Am'zon Silt as chalk is from cheese.