I can hardly realise its being you, and that's a fact.' 'A good passage, cap'en ?' inquired the colonel, taking him aside, 'Well now! It was a pretty spanking run, sir,' said, or rather sung, the captain, who was a genuine New Englander; 'considerin' the weather.' 'Yes ?' said the colonel.
'Well! It was, sir,' said the captain.

'I've just now sent a boy up to your office with the passenger-list, colonel.' 'You haven't got another boy to spare, p'raps, cap'en ?' said the colonel, in a tone almost amounting to severity.
'I guess there air a dozen if you want 'em, colonel,' said the captain.
'One moderate big 'un could convey a dozen champagne, perhaps,' observed the colonel, musing, 'to my office.

You said a spanking run, I think ?' 'Well, so I did,' was the reply.
'It's very nigh, you know,' observed the colonel.

'I'm glad it was a spanking run, cap'en.

Don't mind about quarts if you're short of 'em.
The boy can as well bring four-and-twenty pints, and travel twice as once .-- A first-rate spanker, cap'en, was it?
Yes ?' 'A most e--tarnal spanker,' said the skipper.
'I admire at your good fortun, cap'en.