I will take three o' grog and an ounce of 'bacca." He went across to the public house, and soon returned with a long clay in his hand.

Then he sat down on the shingle with his back against a boat, and the boys threw themselves down close to him.
"Now," he began, when he had filled his pipe with great deliberation and got it fairly alight, "this here yarn as I'm going to tell you ain't no gammon.

Most of the tales which gets told on the beach to visitors as comes down here and wants to hear of sea adventures is just lies from beginning to end.

Now, I ain't that sort, leastways, I shouldn't go to impose upon young gents like you as ha' had a real adventure of your own, and showed oncommon good pluck and coolness too.

I don't say, mind ye, that every word is just gospel.