Me much surprise if you get to de end of dis voyage all right.

You best work vera hard and give him no excuse to hit you.

If he do, by gosh, he kill you, and put down in de log, Boy killed by accident.' "I felt that this was so myself, and I did my work as well as I could.
One day, however, when we were near the line I happened to upset a bucket with some tar.

The captain was standing close by.
"'You young dog,' he said, 'you've done that a purpose,' and before I could speak he caught up the bucket by the handle and brought it down on my head with all his might.

The next thing I remember was, I was lying in a bunk in the forecastle.