Make haste, man and hear what this gem'man, as was in a dirty blubbery whale-ship, and is now in his Majesty's service, has got to say.

I dare say, Jack,' went on the speaker, 'it's some message to his sweetheart, asking her to come for to serve on board ship along with he, like Billy Taylor's young woman.' Philip was coming towards them slowly, not from want of activity, but because he was undecided what he should be called upon to do or to say by the man whom he hated and dreaded, yet whom just now he could not help admiring.
Kinraid groaned with impatience at seeing one, free to move with quick decision, so slow and dilatory.
'Come on then,' cried the sailors, 'or we'll take you too on board, and run you up and down the main-mast a few times.

Nothing like life aboard ship for quickening a land-lubber.' 'Yo'd better take him and leave me,' said Kinraid, grimly.

'I've been taught my lesson; and seemingly he has his yet to learn.' 'His Majesty isn't a schoolmaster to need scholars; but a jolly good captain to need men,' replied the leader of the gang, eyeing Philip nevertheless, and questioning within himself how far, with only two other available men, they durst venture on his capture as well as the specksioneer's.

It might be done, he thought, even though there was this powerful captive aboard, and the boat to manage too; but, running his eye over Philip's figure, he decided that the tall stooping fellow was never cut out for a sailor, and that he should get small thanks if he captured him, to pay him for the possible risk of losing the other.