Fire me overboard! Would they?
'Try,' I said.

'I would for twopence.' 'Too good for you,' they screeched together.

It was so dark that it was only when one or the other of them moved that I was quite sure of seeing him.

By heavens! I only wish they had tried." 'I couldn't help exclaiming, "What an extraordinary affair!" '"Not bad--eh ?" he said, as if in some sort astounded.

"They pretended to think I had done away with that donkey-man for some reason or other.
Why should I?
And how the devil was I to know?
Didn't I get somehow into that boat?
into that boat--I.