You don't suppose I expect it not to move ?" "I understood ye to say that ye wushed it," he replied with dignity, if not offence.
"I don't know what I wish!" I moaned.
My companion's reply to this was to feel about for me and then to begin scrambling over me; then he said--"Move on, laddie, to your right, and ye'll find space to lie on the flat of your back, close by the ship's side.

I'm feared you're barely fit for the job ye've undertaken, but ye'll be easier if ye lie down, and get some sleep." I moved as he told me, and the relief of lying flat was great--so great that I began to pull myself together again, and made ready in my mind to thank my unseen companion for the generosity with which he had evidently given me the place he had picked for himself.

But whilst I was thinking about it I fell fast asleep.
When I woke, for the first minute I thought I was at home, and I could not conceive what Martha could be doing, that there should be, as far as one could hear, chimney-sweeping, cinder-riddling, furniture-moving, clock-winding, and Spring-cleaning, of the most awful nature, all going on at once, and in a storm of yelling and scolding, which was no part of our domestic ways.

But in another minute I knew where I was, and by the light coming through a little round porthole above me, I could see my companion.
He was still sleeping, so that I could satisfy my keen curiosity without rudeness.

He had indeed given up the only bit of space to me, and was himself doubled up among lumber in a fashion that must have been very trying to the length of his limbs.