"Eh, Eric ?" he added, turning to the lad, who was looking at Captain Brown with a face as beaming as his own.
"Of course I will," answered Eric, without a moment's hesitation.

"I should be a donkey to refuse such an offer." "Waall," drawled out the skipper in high good humour, "I'm raal glad to hear you say thet so.

You won't repent j'inin' me, I ken tell you, nor regret slingin' yer hammock aboard the _Pilot's Bride_!" He then proceeded to wring Eric's hand as cordially, and forcibly too, in his big fist as he had done his brother's.
"Now thet's all settled an' fixed up slick," said Captain Brown, when he had finished hand-shaking, passing on the friendly civility to Mr Nat Slater.

"I guess we'd better hev a liquor-up to seal the barg'in; an' when thet's done, if you've got nuthin' better to du, I reckon you'd better come along o' me to my little shanty at the head of the bay--your brother's ben made welcome thaar already." "You are very kind," replied Fritz, to whom this courteous speech was addressed; "but this gentleman here," indicating Nat, "was just going to show me a boarding-house where I can put up at.

He has also promised to introduce me to some shipping firm where I can get work." "Out o' collar, then ?" asked the skipper, with deep interest.
"Yes," answered Fritz.