He is a swine! I tell him to his face:

I didn't think we'd anyone so base."

"Nor I," said Dauber. "There was six weeks' time

Just wasted in these drawings: it's a crime!"

"Well, don't you say we did it," growled his mates,

"And as for crime, be damned! the things were smears--

Best overboard, like you, with shot for weights;

Thank God they're gone, and now go shake your ears."

The Dauber listened, very near to tears.

"Dauber, if I were you," said Sam again,