Well, I must be going back: I've got a rough bit to do 'fore I gets home, and then I've got to go up to the Doctor's." "Vell, you vill eat and drink somesing," said the captain.

"Come to ze cabin, and ve sall see." As it happened, he led the way across the deck, and then along the port side aft to the cabin-hatch, from whence came soon after the call for the cook, who went to and fro carrying plates and glasses, while the two boys still stood in their former places, leaning over the bulwarks and apparently watching the phosphorescent creatures in the sea, but seeing none.
It was some time before either of them spoke, and then it was Vince who broke the silence.
"So we're both dead and swept out to sea, are we ?" he said.
He waited for a few moments, and then, as Mike did not speak, he said, in a low whisper: "I say, Mike, shouldn't you like to take a piece of rock and drop it through old Joe's boat ?" "No." "Well, I should.

Of all the old rascals that I ever heard of he seems to be about the worst.

Why, he's regularly mixed up with this gang.
Did you hear?
It seems that you can only get in and out at certain times of the tide, and nobody knows how to pilot any one in but old Joe Daygo." "Did you understand it to be like that ?" said Mike eagerly.
"Yes, he seems to be the regular pilot, and comes to take this French lugger in and to steer it out among the rocks.

Oh, it's terrible; and we've got old Joe to blame for all our troubles.