Once I was obliged to come up the side without my trousers, and show my bare stem to the whole ship's company, and now I am coming up, and dare not show my figure head." He reported himself to the officer of the watch, and hastening to his cabin went to bed and lay the whole night awake from pain, thinking what excuse he could possibly make for not coming on deck next morning to his duty.
He was, however, saved this trouble, for Mr Jolliffe brought the letter of Gascoigne up to Mr Sawbridge, and the captain had received that of our hero.
Captain Wilson came on board and found that Mr Sawbridge could communicate all the particulars of which he had not been acquainted by Jack; and after they had read over Gascoigne's letter in the cabin, and interrogated Mr Tallboys, who was sent down under an arrest, they gave free vent to their mirth.
"Upon my soul, there's no end to Mr Easy's adventures," said the captain.

"I could laugh at the duel, for after all it is nothing--and he would have been let off with a severe reprimand.

But the foolish boys have set off in a speronare to Sicily, and how the devil are we to get them back again ?" "They'll come back, sir," replied Sawbridge, "when all their money's gone." "Yes, if they do not get into any more scrapes.

That young scamp Gascoigne is as bad as Easy, and now they are together there's no saying what may happen.

I dine at the Governor's to-day; how he will laugh when I tell him of this new way of fighting a duel!" "Yes, sir, it is just the thing that will tickle old Tom." "We must find out if they have got off the island, Sawbridge, which may not be the case." But it was the case.