'Twas the most compenjus conversation that iver accrued.

Double game an' twice runnin'-- all to us." Dan kicked Harvey under the table, and Harvey choked in his cup.
"Well," said Salters, who felt that his honour had been somewhat plastered, "I said I didn't know as 'twuz any business o' mine, 'fore I spoke." "An' right there," said Tom Platt, experienced in discipline and etiquette--"right there, I take it, Disko, you should ha' asked him to stop ef the conversation wuz likely, in your jedgment, to be anyways--what it shouldn't." "Dunno but that's so," said Disko, who saw his way to an honourable retreat from a fit of the dignities.
"Why, o' course it was so," said Salters, "you bein' skipper here; an' I'd cheerful hev stopped on a hint--not from any leadin' or conviction, but fer the sake o' bearin' an example to these two blame boys of aours." "Didn't I tell you, Harve, 'twould come araound to us 'fore we'd done?
Always those blame boys.

But I wouldn't have missed the show fer a half-share in a halibutter," Dan whispered.
"Still, things should ha' been kep' sep'rate," said Disko, and the light of new argument lit in Salters's eye as he crumbled cut plug into his pipe.
"There's a power av vartue in keepin' things sep'rate," said Long Jack, intent on stilling the storm.

"That's fwhat Steyning of Steyning and Hare's f'und when he sent Counahan fer skipper on the _Marilla D.Kuhn_, instid o' Cap.

Newton that was took with inflam'try rheumatism an' couldn't go.