You bose can svim?
Yais?
Good, but you need not try: you stay down here vis me and not take trouble, but go to ze bottom like ze brave _homme_, for ze big tide on'y take you avay and knock you against ze rock.

Now eat you feesh." It was not a pleasant addition to the boys' dinner, but they went on listening in the intervals of the captain's many speeches, and picturing to themselves how the great lugger was being carefully piloted along a sharp current and steered here and there, apparently doubling upon her course more than once.

But by the time the boiled fowl was nearly eaten there was a steady heeling over, following the sound of the hoisting of a sail.

Then the vessel heeled over a little more, and seemed to dance for a minute in rough water, as if she were passing over some awkward place.

The captain smiled.
"My sheep she is lively," he said.