"He was going to kill the black fellow with his knife after knocking him down.
I wasn't going to stand by and see him do that, was I ?" "Well, I s'pose not," said the captain, who looked puzzled.

"Where is the black fellow?
Here, where's Jimmy ?" "Down that square hole there, that wooden well-place," said Jack, pointing to the forecastle hatch.

"He slipped down there when the yaller chap hit him." "Look here--" said the captain as I made for the hatch to look after Jimmy.

"But stop a minute, let's have the black up." Two of the men went below and dragged up poor Jimmy, who was quite stunned, and bleeding freely from a wound on the head.
"Well, that's some proof of what you say, my fine fellow," continued the captain, as the doctor knelt down to examine poor Jimmy's head and I fetched some water to bathe his face.

"What did you do next ?" "Next?
Let me see," drawled Jack Penny; "what did I do next?
Oh! I know.