"Let us finish our work before eating." "So be it, captain, go ahead," cried Peterkin, thrusting the nuts into his trousers pocket.

"In fact I don't want to eat just now, but I would give a good deal for a drink.

Oh that I could find a spring! but I don't see the smallest sign of one hereabouts.

I say, Jack, how does it happen that you seem to be up to everything?
You have told us the names of half- a-dozen trees already, and yet you say that you were never in the South Seas before." "I'm not up to _everything_, Peterkin, as you'll find out ere long," replied Jack, with a smile; "but I have been a great reader of books of travel and adventure all my life, and that has put me up to a good many things that you are, perhaps, not acquainted with." "Oh, Jack, that's all humbug.

If you begin to lay everything to the credit of books, I'll quite lose my opinion of you," cried Peterkin, with a look of contempt.