I want you to be easy with that boy.

He was very kind to me when I was a prisoner." "Hum! Hah! Well, I don't know what to say to that.

Here, my man, fetch that boy on deck." Ram came up, whistling softly, and looking sharply from one to the other.
"Now, sir, take off your cap," said the lieutenant sternly.
Ram did not look a bit afraid, but he doffed his red cap.
"I suppose you know, sir, that you'll be sent to gaol ?" "Yes .-- I knew you wouldn't hang me." "And pray what have you to say for yourself ?" "Nothing that I knows on," said Ram.

"Yes, I have.

I say father's gone, and I dessay he won't come back for ever so long, and I don't want to go among the Dutchmen.