Haven't been at one of them little kegs, have you?
Oh, very well; if you don't like to talk, I can't make you." "Are you going to let me out of this place ?" said the midshipman, so as to keep up the idea of his longing to be set free, and chase any suspicions of his having discovered a way out.
"When I get orders, Mr Orsifer, and not before.

I aren't skipper, no more nor you are." "Another piece of insolence," thought the prisoner.

"Oh, how I will pay him out for this by and by!" "Aren't you going to peck ?" Archy took no notice, and at last there came, in a deep, echoing growl through the place,-- "Say, lad, going to be all day ?" "Coming, Jemmy," Ram shouted.

"Want anything else, midshipman ?" "Yes, you to go and not worry me," replied Archy, heartily repenting his words the next moment for fear that they should excite suspicion.
But they did not, for Ram only laughed and walked away..