“Yes, ’Pollo, and I suppose we shall start next to get to another sunken wreck, and unload her.”
“I tink, sah, I take de schooner close up to dat old wreck off de lilly island.”
“So do I, ’Pollo; and what’s more I will.”
“I tink, sah, we ought get berry big lot ob silber for ourselb. If I tought dey turn shabby, I say let Mass’ Oakum and me go and get de whole ob de oder ship and cut de silber in two half, and take one apiece.”
“Very pretty, ’Pollo, if we could do it: but as we can’t, let’s be content with what we get from the governors.”
“Yah—yah—yah—yah,” laughed ’Pollo softly.
“Now then, what are you grinning about?” said Oakum.
“I tink, sah, about de sunken ship and de silber.”
“What of it?”
“I tink, sah, how funny it am if we came out here, find de sunk ship, pull up all de silber, and den if we go and lose de ship somewheres else, and all de silber go to de bottom again.”