8/14 And I don't carry 'em there, neither. Anyhow, I comes back. Says I, I'll see a bit o' the sea, and steps aboard a collier. We were as nigh wrecked as the prophet Paul." "-- A--who's him ?" the other wished to know. "We pitched and tossed--'tain't that game at sea 'tis on land, I can tell ye! I thinks, down we're a-going--say your prayers, Bob Tiles! That was a night, to be sure! But God's above the devil, and here I am, ye see." Speed-the-Plough lurched round on his elbow and regarded him indifferently. |