That doesn't look your sort, or I'm mistaken." "I hope not," Jack said.

"I am here because I am a sort of cousin of the Mayor of Southampton.

He wanted me to serve in his shop.

I stood it for a time, but I hated it, and at last I had a row with his foreman and knocked him down, so I was kicked out into the streets; and I suppose he didn't like seeing me about, and so took this means of getting rid of me.

He needn't have been in such a hurry, for if he had waited a few days I should have gone, for I had shipped as a boy on board of a ship about to sail for the colonies." "In that case, my lad, you have no reason for ill will against this precious relation of yours, for he has done you a good turn while meaning to do you a bad un.