"Only six men left after you four done runned away." "Six!" exclaimed Bird, raising himself up with a desperate struggle, like a wounded hawk.

"No six in it; only two left.

He don't, can't no how, go to sea with only two men.

I'll pilot the schooner out by the Belican Channel an' Mis'sip' Sound.

Cap'n Sull'dine 'n' I fit over it, an' I left, with most of the crew.