So saying, he and the other associates shook him by the hand and took their leave, after the surgeon had tilted up the lantern to take a view of his visage, which was pale and haggard.
Before the door was locked upon him, he called aloud, "Hilloa! doctor, hip--another word, d'ye see." They forthwith returned to know what he wanted, and found him already in a sweat.

"Hark ye, brother," said he, wiping his face, "I do suppose as how one may pass away the time in whistling the Black Joke, or singing Black-eyed Susan, or some such sorrowful ditty."-- "By no means," cried the doctor; "such pastimes are neither suitable to the place, nor the occasion, which is altogether a religious exercise.

If you have got any psalms by heart, you may sing a stave or two, or repeat the Doxology."-- "Would I had Tom Laverick here," replied our novitiate; "he would sing your anthems like a sea-mew--a had been a clerk a-shore--many's the time and often I've given him a rope's end for singing psalms in the larboard watch.

Would I had hired the son of a b---h to have taught me a cast of his office--but it cannot be holp, brother--if we can't go large, we must haul up a wind, as the saying is; if we can't sing, we must pray." The company again left him to his devotion, and returned to the public-house, in order to execute the essential part of their project..