human
Don't all want to do the job? he cried.
gpt
Not one to volunteer? Why, you laugh at me, and call me Frenchy, and brag about your English pluck, and not one man will come forward. Here you, Bob Hampton, your trick's over at the wheel; come and lay this powder.
human
What, to blow in the cabin-door? came in familiar tones.
gpt
All right, skipper; only I don't know much about powder to make trains. You wet in, don't wild-fire on it?
human
Bah! stand aside. Here you, Blane, lay that powder close up door.
gpt
What me, skipper? Anything in going aloft and settin' sail; but I know no more about gunpowder than a babby.
human
Get out of the way, idiot. Where's Dumlow?
gpt
Which here I be,
human
Here, lay hold of this powder, and plant it, my lad, and then lay a train.
gpt
Take that there powder and lay a train?
human
Yes.
gpt
Not me.
human
What! You dare--
gpt
Lookye here, skipper, growled Dumlow,
human
Yes, and it will go off, cried Jarette.
gpt
I mean to be obeyed by this crew, as I've just shown you.
human
Nay, but don't poke pestles in my face; 'cause it make me hit out, and when I hits out I hurts. You ask some one else.
gpt
Bah!
human
Goin' to plant it yourself?
gpt
Yes, you brave Englishman, sneered Jarette.
human
I'm going to show you what your captain can do.
gpt
Shoot the scoundrel!
human
Impossible, without he comes into sight,
gpt
Can't you see him?
human
No; he is pushing a bag of powder right in up against the door, and now sprinkling handfuls of powder up to it.
gpt
You come away, said the captain.
human
Quick, man! Here, every one lie down at the far end of the saloon.
gpt
Can you do anything with that, sir?
human
No, my lad. Quite impossible to reach it effectually.