I don't know you, bedad, but I know all about you, and I saw you and your family when you came to town to visit that old fox, bedad, that sugar-planter that Captain Blackbeard used to call Sir Nightcap.

Not a bad joke, either, bedad.

I have heard of a good many dirty, mean things that people in my line of business have done, but, bedad, I never did hear of any captain who was dirty and mean to his own family.

Fine people, too, who came out to do the right thing by him, after he had been cleaned out, bedad, by one of his 'Brothers of the Coast.' A rare sort of brother, bedad, don't you say so ?" "You are right, sir," said Mr.Delaplaine, "in what you say of the wild conduct of my brother-in-law Bonnet.

It pleases me, sir, to know that you condemn it." "Condemn! I should say so, bedad," answered Captain Ichabod; "and I came over here to say to you--that is, just to mention, not knowing, of course, what you'd think about it, bedad--that I'm goin' to start on a cruise to-morrow.