“Let me alone, you fool. I weren’t dreaming or groaning.”
“Yes, you did groan.”
“Go off, and keep quiet.”
The captain settled back and was soon fast asleep. The mate listened a moment and then spread himself on the floor again and he had just closed his eyes when up he leaped again and ran to the captain and shook him again.
“There, captain, you did groan that time.”
“Say, man, you’ve got ’em.”
“No, I ain’t got ’em, but I tell you that you groaned like a dying man.”
“You have been dreaming yourself.”
“I’ll be hanged if I have.”
“Well, let me alone and don’t wake me again, do you hear? or I’ll hit you.”