 hoops of yours come to, and if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?</p>
<p>“Give him a good ducking, anyhow.”</p>
<p>“But he’d crawl back.”</p>
<p>“Duck him again; and keep ducking him.”</p>
<p>“Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though—yes, and drown you—what then?”</p>
<p>“I should like to see him try it; I’d give him such a pair of black eyes that he wouldn’t dare to show his face in the admiral’s cabin 