"Dick shall not only stop in my house to-night, but as long as you please to let him, I tell you; and sure it's always grateful I'll be to him." "Well, then," cried the Captain, "there's no use my stopping yarning here like an old woman now that point is settled.

You'd better go and see after the boys at once." "Oh, I'll say after them," she answered, laughing at his impatience, as he almost pushed her within the doorway and rushed down the steps towards the gate--"I'll say after them, never fear!" "Mind you put them between the blankets, and give them each something hot to drink when they turn in," he shouted back over the railings.
"I'll come round in the morning and give them a lecture to wake 'em up!" With these last words, off he went; his malacca cane coming down with a thump on the pavement at every third step he took, until the sound died away in the distance--"Stump, Stump, Thump!--Stump, stump, Thump!-- Stump, stump, Thump!".