I won't be,--see if I am." Mike slowly changed his position, turning round and sitting up.
"Now, then, that's better," said Vince.

"What was I going to say?
Oh! I know.

The pirate captain and old Joe wanted to make us believe that we were to be taken out to sea, to walk the plank or be hung or shot or something." "Joe said something about Botany Bay and sending us there." "No, he didn't; he said Bottonny, and there is no such place.

He couldn't do it, and he couldn't keep us prisoners here." "He might kill us." "No, he mightn't.

Bah! what a silly old Ladle you are! He couldn't.
People don't do such things now, only in stories.