I'll go and set along of Bailey and you go in and talk quiet to her.

She'd feel so sort of ashamed if there was anyone else to hear the rakin' over--hey ?" "Now, see here, Ase," expostulated the captain, "I don't like to do this all by myself! Besides, 'twas you chaps put me up to it.

You ain't goin' to pull out of the race and leave me to go over the course alone, are you?
Come on! what are, you afraid of ?" His companion hotly denied that he was "afraid" of anything.

He had all sorts of arguments to back his decision.

At last Captain Cy lost patience.
"Well, BE a skulk, if you want to!" he declared.