The captain stared at Jack’s serious face for a few moments, and then he joined with the doctor and me in a hearty laugh.
“I don’t well understand you yet, my fine fellow,” he said; “perhaps I shall, though, afore I’ve done. Here, come down; you do look as if a little wholesome vittles would do you good. Are you hungry then?”
“Hungry!” said Jack, without a drawl, and he gave his teeth a gnash; “why, I ain’t had nothing but some damper and a bottle o’ water since I came on board.”
Chapter Six.
How Jimmy was frightened by the Bunyip.
“Oh, I don’t know that I’ve got any more to say about it,” said Jack Penny to me as we sat next day in the bows of the schooner, with our legs dangling over the side. “I heard all about your going, and there was nothing to do at home now, so I said to myself that I’d go, and here I am.”
“Yes, here you are,” I said; “but you don’t mean to tell me that you intended to go up the country with us?”
“Yes, I do,” he said.