He's given me many a sixpence for birds' eggs and beetles and snakes I've got for him.

Soon as I heard you were going to find him, I says to father, `I'm going too.'" "And what did your father say ?" "Said I was a fool." "Ah! of course," I exclaimed.
"No, it ain't `ah, of course,' Mr Clever," he cried.

"Father always says that to me whatever I do, but he's very fond of me all the same." Just then the captain came forward with his glass under his arm, and his hands deep down in his pockets.

He walked with his legs very wide apart, and stopped short before us, his straw hat tilted right over his nose, and see-sawing himself backwards and forwards on his toes and heels.
"You're a nice young man, arn't you now ?" he said to Jack.
"No, I'm only a boy yet," said Jack quietly.
"Well, you're tall enough to be a man, anyhow.

What's your height ?" "Five foot 'leven," said Jack.
"And how old are you ?" "Seventeen next 'vember," said Jack.
"Humph!" said the captain.
"Here, how much is it ?" said Jack, thrusting his hand in his pocket.
"I'll pay now and ha' done with it." "Pay what ?" "My passage-money." "Oh!" said the captain quietly, "I see.