Napyank laughed as if the recollection afforded him great pleasure.
“Yees are an unfaaling creature,” continued Teddy. “Yees have sarved me more that one ongintlemanly thrick.”
“Why, what now, Teddy?”
“Yees remimbers when ye wid not lit me tackle the ridskins out in Kaintuck.”
“But they were a dozen, and we were only two.”
“What the odds! We had not cracked a head for a waak, and there was emminent danger of me losing the scientific touch of the business.”
“It’s plain to see when you are in your element,” commented McGowan, and then addressing the ladies,
“Come, it is time you went below; it is getting quite late.”
The females took this palpable hint; and bidding their friends good night descended into the cabin. Teddy tipped his hat and scraped his foot, with all the politeness at his command and then turned to his new made friends.