His dress, like that of most Jack tars, was naturally rugged, and he contrived to make it more so than usual.
"An' it's hot, too, it is," he continued, applying his kerchief again to his pate "If it warn't for the ice we stand on, we'd be melted down, I do belave, like bits o' whale blubber." "Wot a jolly game football is, ain't it ?" said Davie seating himself on a hummock, and still panting hard.
"Ay, boy, that's jist what it is.

The only objiction I have agin it is, that it makes ye a'most kick the left leg clane off yer body." "Why don't you kick with your right leg, then, stupid, like other people ?" inquired Summers.
"Why don't I, is it?
Troth, then, I don't know for sartin.

Me father lost his left leg at the great battle o' the Nile, and I've sometimes thought that had somethin' to do wid it.

But then me mother was lame o' the _right_ leg intirely, and wint about wid a crutch, so I can't make out how it was, d'ye see ?" "Look out, Pat," exclaimed Summers, starting up, "here comes the ball." As he spoke, the football came skimming over the ice towards the spot on which they stood, with about thirty of the men running at full speed and shouting like maniacs after it.
"That's your sort, my hearties! another like that and it's home! Pitch into it, Mivins.

You're the boy for me! Now then, Grim, trip him up! Hallo! Buzzby, you bluff-bowed Dutchman, luff! luff! or I'll stave in your ribs! Mind your eye, Mizzle! there's Green, he'll be into your larboard quarter in no time.