"D'you suppose I'd fall overboard into your dirty little boat for fun ?" "Not knowin' what your notions o' fun may be, I can't rightly say, young feller.

But if I was you, I wouldn't call the boat which, under Providence, was the means o' savin' ye, names.

In the first place, it's blame irreligious.

In the second, it's annoyin' to my feelin's--an' I'm Disko Troop o' the _We're Here_ o' Gloucester, which you don't seem rightly to know." "I don't know and I don't care," said Harvey.

"I'm grateful enough for being saved and all that, of course! but I want you to understand that the sooner you take me back to New York the better it'll pay you." "Meanin'-- haow ?" Troop raised one shaggy eyebrow over a suspiciously mild blue eye.
"Dollars and cents," said Harvey, delighted to think that he was making an impression.