He couldn't turn back av he wanted iver so much; but he doesn't want to, for he needs a smart lad like you, an' he'll keep you now, for sartin." Barney sat down by Martin's side and stroked his fair curls, as he sought in his own quaint fashion to console him.

But in vain.

Martin grew quite desperate as he thought of the misery into which poor Aunt Dorothy Grumbit would be plunged, on learning that he had been swept out to sea in a little boat, and drowned, as she would naturally suppose.

In his frenzy he entreated and implored the captain to send him back in the boat, and even threatened to knock out his brains with a handspike if he did not; but the captain smiled and told him that it was his own fault.
He had no business to be putting to sea in a small boat in rough weather, and he might be thankful he wasn't drowned.

He wouldn't turn back now for fifty pounds twice told.
At length Martin became convinced that all hope of returning home was gone.