"Ah! Who's this ?" he cried, as he nearly fell over a prostrate figure.
"Steady, my lad, steady!" "Steady it is," said another voice.
"What, bo's'n ?" "Yes, sir, and me too.

Oh, my head! How it bleeds!" "Why, what are you doing here ?" "They came at us, sir, like mad bulls, and 'fore I knew where I was they had me.

Pair o' hands pops up out of the hole, takes hold of my legs, and I was pulled down, had a crack of the head, was danced on, and here I am, sir." "And me too, sir," said the other voice.

"But, I'm much worse than him." "But the smugglers ?" "All seemed to come over us, sir; banged the door down, and they've been rattling big stones on it.

There, you can hear 'em now." In corroboration of the boatswain's words, there was a dull thunderous sound overhead, as of great stones being thrown down over the trap-door, and all listened in silence for a time till the noise ceased.
The silence was broken by Gurr, who suddenly roared out, as if he had only just grasped the position,-- "Why, they've got away!" "Every man jack of 'em, sir, and they all walked over me." "And they've shut us in!" "Yes, Mr Gurr," said Archy sadly; "they've shut us in." "But if they were here," cried the master; "that's what I wanted to do to them.