Suddenly he heard Barney in the pilot-house above calling him.
“Shure, naygur, an’ phwere is the heart av yez? Can yez bear to see me stharve, yez ill-mannered coon yez?”
“Huh!” grunted Pomp. “Why didn’t yo’ say yo’ was hungry?”
“Bejabers, yez have only to luk at me to see that.”
“Yo’ am right dar, I’sh; wha’ yo’ loike fo’ to eat?”
“Shure I’ll take it in liquid form if yez don’t moind.”
“Yo’ want some consomme, den?”
“Divil a bit! Yez know phat’s best to warrum the cockles av me heart.”
Pomp chuckled.
“I done fink I undahstan’ yo’,” he said. “I brung yo’ up some dreckly.”