"Never mind, out with it."
"Well, thin, if I must tell yees, I was thinking that this owld staamer was all on fire, and all of us passengers was jumping around in the wather, pulling each other down, away miles into the sea, till we was gone so long there wasn't a chance iver to git up agin."
A strange fear thrilled both of the boys at the mention of this, and they looked at each other a moment in silence.
"What put that into your head, Tim?"
"And it's just the question I was axing meself, for I never draamed of such a thing in my life before, and it's mighty qua'r that I should take a notion to do it now."
"It ain't worth talking about," said Elwood, showing an anxiety to change the subject.
"Be yees going to bed to-night?"
"I don't feel a bit sleepy," replied Elwood. "I'd just as soon sit up half the night as not."
"And so would I; it must be after eleven o'clock, isn't it?"
"It's near 'levin," replied Tim. "I'm not able to examine me watch; and if I was, I couldn't tell very well, as it hasn't run for a few months."