"When was it stolen?"
"Where's Captain Bannister?"
The crier looked down at us with some air of indignation, and shifted his quid of tobacco.
"Apply at the Eagle House," said he, pointing his thumb over his shoulder.
"Come on! come on!" we begged the other three, "let's go to the
Eagle House!"
"Why? What for?"
"That's the 'Hoppergrass' he said was stolen. Captain Bannister is here,—at the Eagle House!"
"But he didn't say the 'Hoppergrass';—he said the Hannah
Billingsgate."
"Pettingell. That's the other name of the 'Hoppergrass'."
"The other name? Does she travel under an Elias, as Gregory the
Gauger calls it?"