Now I'm sayin' all this in private, sonny, to let you know that Black McTee has wised up the skipper about you, and I'm keepin' a weather eye open.

If you make one funny move, I'll be on your back." "All right, Jerry." "Don't call me Jerry, you swab! I'm the bos'n." "Look me in the eye, Jerry Hovey, me dear.

If you so much as bat the lashes av wan eye in lookin' at me, I'll bust ye in two pieces like a sea biscuit, Jerry, an' I'll eat the biggest half an' throw the rest into the sea.

Ar-r-re ye wise ?" Now, Jerry Hovey was a very big man, and he had thrashed men of larger bulk than Harrigan.

But there was something about the Irishman's thickness of shoulder and length of arm that gave him pause.