Mebbe I'll git a job here, 'round this yer wreck.

If you reelly want that there grapn'I, wot'll you gimme ?" "Five dollars, gold, take it or leave it," said Dab, pulling out a coin from the money he had received for his bluefish.
In three minutes more "The Swallow" was furnished with a much larger and better anchor than the one she had lost the day before; and Dick Lee exclaimed, "It jes' takes Cap'n Kinzer!" For some minutes before this, as the light grew clearer and the fog lifted a little, Frank Harley had been watching them from the rail of the "Prudhomme," and wondering if all the fisher-boys in America dressed as well as these two.
"Hullo, you!" was the greeting which now came to his ears.

"Go ashore in my boat ?" "Not till I've eaten some of your fish for breakfast," said Frank.
"What's your name ?" "Captain Dabney Kinzer, of 'most anywhere on Long Island.

What's yours ?" "Frank Harley of Rangoon." "I declare," almost shouted Ford Foster, "if you're not the chap my sister Annie told me of! You're going to Albany, to my uncle Joe Hart's, ain't you ?" "Yes, to Mr.Hart's, and then to Grantley to school." "That's it.

Well, then, you can just come along with us.