"I wouldn't give a cuss for any of the British settlements.

Give me real niggers, chaps as knows nothing of law or civilizing, or any rot of the sort.

I can pull along with them.
"I have often wondered how you managed it," Girdlestone said curiously.
"You succeed in picking up a cargo where the steadiest and best men can't get as much as a bag of nuts.

How do you work it ?" "There's many would like to know that," Miggs answered, with an expressive wink.
"It is a secret, then ?" "Well, it ain't a secret to you, 'cause you ain't a skipper, and it don't matter if you knows it or not.

I don't want to have 'em all at the same game." "How is it, then ?" "I'll tell ye," said Miggs.