It was sometimes rather a bore.' 'I should smile!' said Davis.

'Rather lively, I should think!' 'I dare say we mean the same thing,' said Attwater.

'However, one way or another, one got it knocked into their heads that they MUST work, and they DID...

until the Lord took them!' ''Ope you made 'em jump,' said Huish.
'When it was necessary, Mr Whish, I made them jump,' said Attwater.
'You bet you did,' cried the captain.

He was a good deal flushed, but not so much with wine as admiration; and his eyes drank in the huge proportions of the other with delight.