"Who's going to pay your passage-money?
The captain's in a fine state, I can tell you, about it, and I don't know what he won't do to you.

He might order you to be pitched overboard into the sea, perhaps." The other scratched his head reflectively, just as Tim Rooney did when in a quandary, looking round at the men behind Mr Mackay, who were grinning at his blank dismay and the perturbed and puzzled expression on his raw yokel face.
"Oi be willin' to wa-ark, measter," he answered at length, thinking that if they were all grinning, they were not likely to do him much harm.
"Oi'll wa-ark, measter, loike a good un, so long as you gie Oi grub and let Oi be." "Work! What can you, a bricklayer according to your own statement, do aboard ship?
We've got no bricks to lay here." "Mab'be, measter, you moight try un, though," pleaded the poor fellow, scratching his head again; and then adding, as if a brilliant thought all at once occurred to him from the operation, "Oi be used to scaffoldin' and can cloimb loike sailor cheaps." "Ah, you must speak to the captain about that," replied Mr Mackay drily, turning aft and giving some whispered instructions to Tim Rooney to let the stowaway have some more food later on and give him a shake- down in the forecastle for the night, so that he might be in better fettle for his audience with Captain Gillespie on the morrow.

"You can stop here with the men till the morning, and then you will know what will be done in the matter." "Well," cried Captain Gillespie as soon as Mr Mackay stepped up the poop ladder, "how's that rascal getting on ?" "I think he'll come round now, sir," said the first mate, thinking it best not to mention how quickly his patient had recovered, so that he might have a few hours' reprieve before encountering the captain's wrath.

"I've told the boatswain to give him a bunk in the fo'c's'le for the night, and that you'll talk to him in the morning." "Oh, aye, I'll talk to him like a Dutch uncle," retorted the captain, sniffing away at a fine rate, as if Mr Mackay was as much in fault as the unfortunate cause of his ire.

"You know I never encourage stowaways on board my ship, sir; and when I say a thing I mean a thing." "Yes, sir; certainly, sir," said Mr Mackay soothingly, taking no notice of his manner to him and judiciously turning the conversation.