His figure seemed suddenly to swell and the calm, victorious light of the supreme conqueror came into his eyes.
"Boys," he said, and his voice was even and precise, as a victor's should be, "when I undertook this here job o' settin' us on our feet agin, I undertook to do it all.

I not only meant to put us on our feet, but to git us ready fur runnin', too.

Boys, I hev took 'The Gall-yun' from the Spaniards ag'in an' she's waitin' fur us." "What! what!" they cried in chorus.

"You don't mean it, Sol ?" "I shorely do mean it.

All the boats that they expect to use to-day wuz anchored in the bi-yoo or hay-yoo or whatever they call it.