"Joe got the clothes for us," ses Bob. "I know the place he got 'em from, too."
The ingratitude o' these two men was sich that at first we decided to have no more to do with them, but better feelings prevailed, and we held a sort o' meeting to consider what was best to be done. An' everything that was suggested one o' them two voices from the floor found fault with and wouldn't 'ave, and at last we 'ad to go up on deck, with nothing decided upon, except to swear 'ard and fast as we knew nothing about it.
"The only advice we can give you," ses Joe, looking back at 'em, "is to stay down 'ere as long as you can."
A'most the fust person we see on deck was the mate, an' a pretty sight he was. He'd got a bandage round 'is left eye, and a black ring round the other. His nose was swelled and his lip cut, but the other officers were making sich a fuss over 'im, that I think he rather gloried in it than otherwise.
"Where's them other two 'ands?" he ses by-and-by, glaring out of 'is black eye.
"Down below, sir, I b'lieve," ses the carpenter, all of a tremble.
"Go an' send 'em up," ses the mate to Smith.
"Yessir," ses Joe, without moving.
"Well, go on then," roars the mate.
"They ain't over and above well, sir, this morning," ses Joe.