"Yer can't skeer nobody.

You'll draw a pistol next.

Yer better go home to yer mammy, if ye kin find her." "He ain't got no mammy," snarled Scootsy.

"He's a pick-up--me father says so." Archie sprang forward to avenge the insult, but before he could reach Scootsy's side a yell arose from the bow of the hulk.
"Yi! yi! Run, fellers! Here comes old man Fogarty! he's right on top o' ye! Not that side--this way.

Yi! yi!" The invaders turned and ran the length of the deck, scrambled over the side and dropped one after the other to the sand below just as the Fogarty head appeared at the bow.