You are here." "Oh, yes--I'm here, sir! but I don't know hardly how it was." "Can't you recollect ?" "Yes, I think I can, sir, only my head's so tight just now.

I think this handkerchief I tied round when it bled does it, but I'm afraid to take it off." "Wait a bit and we'll do that," said the major kindly.
"Will you, sir?
Thank ye, sir." "But how did you get ashore ?" said Mark.
"In the ship, sir.

I suppose the rain and the waves must have put out the fire, and what's left of her went bumping over rocks and knocking about, making my head ache horribly till I went to sleep again; and when I woke it was all bright and fine, and the half-burned ship close to the sands in shallow water, so as when the tide's down you can walk ashore." "The ship here ?" "Yes; round there, sir," said the poor fellow wearily.

"There's some half-burned biscuit in her, and I've been living on that and some kind of fruit I found in the woods when I could get ashore.

I brought this thing for a walking-stick." "Then the ship is ashore here ?" cried the major joyfully.
"Yes, sir; but she's not good for anything but firewood," said the stowaway sadly.
"Ah! we shall see about that," said the major.