"You think it was a man?"
"Sure an' whot else could it uv bin?"
"How about a big monkey?" Captain Ole asked.
"Well, it moight have bin a monkey but it's me bet it was a man, an' as I said before, ut's the second time. First he hit me wid a nut an' thin he knocks the wind out uv me. Oh, he's got sumpin comin' ter him all right an' don't yer fergit ut."
"Hope I'll be there to see it," Jack told him.
"An' it's some fight yer'll see if yer are," Pat promised him.
"I should have thought you could tell by the feeling whether it was a man or a monkey," Captain Ole said.
"Well, the thing was hairy enough ter be a monkey if thot's whot yer mane," Pat told him.
"And the noise he made sounded more like a monkey than a man to me," Bob added.
"But fer all thot I'm bettin' 'twas a man," Pat insisted. "Sure an' I niver heard yit uv a monkey swimmin' an' thot feller must've swum out here from the shore."