"And will he bring any more sailors with him ?" "Aye, sonny, the howl bilin' av the crew, barrin' us chaps here alriddy.
Yis, an' our say pilot will come aboord there, the river one lavin' us there." "I'm glad of that," I said.

"I thought there weren't enough on board to sail the ship, with only you four men and the boy who struck the bell!" "Did ye?
Then, sure, ye've got the makin's av a sailor in yez afther all, as Misther Mackay aid whin he foorst clapped eyes on ye.

An', sure, it's now me toorn to be afther axin' quistions, me bhoy--don't ye feel peckish loike ?" "Peckish ?" I echoed, unable to understand him.
"Now, don't go on loike an omadhawn, an' make me angry, as ye did at foorst," he cried.

"I mane are yez houngry?
For I don't belaive you've hid a bit insoide yer little carcase since ye came aboord this forenoon; an' we're now gittin' through the foorst dog-watch." I declare I never thought of it before, but, now he mentioned it, I did feel hungry--very much so, indeed, not having tasted a morsel since the hasty meal that morning before leaving home; when, as might be supposed, I did not have over much of an appetite, with the consciousness that it might possibly be the last time I should breakfast with father and mother and sister Nell.

The parting with Tom did not affect me much, as he had got priggish and rather above a boy like me since he had been to Oxford.
"By the powers!" exclaimed the kind Irishman when I confessed to feeling "peckish," as he called it, telling him I had not had anything since eight o'clock that morning, "ye must be jist famished, me poor gossoon; an' if I'd been so long without grub, why it's atin' me grandfather I'd be, or my wife's sister's first coosin, if I had one! But, now I've got this cable snug, jist you come along o' me, me bhoy, an' we'll say what that Portygee stooard hez lift in his panthry; for I've got no proper mess yit an' have to forage in the cabin." "I thought you said, though, he was bad tempered," I observed as I followed the boatswain along the deck towards the door opening into the cuddy from the main-deck under the break of the poop, and only used generally by the steward and cook going to and from the galley forward, the other entrance by the companion way, direct down from the poop, being reserved for the captain and officers, as a rule.