Now just come over to me, like a decent creature, and give me the dhrop of comfort ye have.
Come, avick." "Go over to you ?" "Ay, and why not?
or if it's so lazy ye are, why then I'll thry and cross over to your side." These words being accompanied by a certain indication of change of residence on the part of Mrs.Mulrooney, Sir Stewart perceived there was no time to lose, and springing from his berth, he rushed half-dressed through the cabin, and up the companion-ladder, just as Mrs.Mulrooney had protruded a pair of enormous legs from her couch, and hung for a moment pendulous before she dropped upon the floor, and followed him to the deck.

A tremendous shout of laughter from the sailors and deck passengers prevented my hearing the dialogue which ensued; nor do I yet know how Mrs.Mulrooney learned her mistake.

Certain it is, she no more appeared among the passengers in the cabin, and Sir Stewart's manner the following morning at breakfast amply satisfied me that I had had my revenge..