“Is it werry deep?”
“Deep as a lawyer.”
“O! I really feel all over”—
“And, by Gog, you'll be all over presently—don't lay your hand on my scull!”
“You villin, I never so much as touched your scull. You put me up.”
“I must put you down. I tell you what it is, young 'ooman, if you vant to go on, you must sit still; if you keep moving, you'll stay where you are—that's all! There, by Gosh! we're in for it.” At this point of the interesting dialogue, the young 'ooman gave a sudden lurch to larboard, and turned the boat completely over. The boatman, blowing like a porpoise, soon strode across the upturned bark, and turning round, beheld the drenched “fare” clinging to the stern.
“O! you partic'lar fool!” exclaimed the waterman. “Ay, hold on a-stern, and the devil take the hindmost, say I!”
SCENE VIII.
In for it, or Trying the middle.