"Man, the French be landed, an' the country's ablaze!" Billy Bates set down his lantern on the slip and ran two trembling hands through his scanty locks.
"If that's so," he answered, "you don't get no boat of mine.

There's Hosken's blue boat; you'll find her moored off by a shoreline.
Take _she_ if you will; he's a single man." "Darn your old carcass!" swore Gunner Sobey.

"I wish now I'd waited to cross over before tellin' 'ee!" "I dare say you do.

Well, good night, soce.

I'm off to tell the old woman." Man is a selfish animal.