Now, Massa Easy, let um go 'bout 'gain.

Somebody else burn biscuit and boil kettle to-morrow for de gentlemen.

Murder Irish! only tink, Massa Easy--I boil kettle, and prince in my own country!" Easy was very much of a mind with Mesty; "for," argued Jack, "if I go back now, I only bring a small vessel half-full of beans, and I shall be ashamed to show my face.

Now it is true, that they may suppose that we have been sunk by the fire of the gun-boat.

Well, what then?
they have a gun-boat to show for their night's work, and it will appear that there was harder fighting than there has been, and Mr Sawbridge may benefit by it." (Jack was a very knowing fellow to have leant so much about the service already.) "Well, and when they discover that we are not lost, how glad they will be to find us, especially if we bring some prizes--which I will do, or I'll not go back again.