I reckon I'll bear hoisting better'n he will, anyway.

Ugh! ah! um! owh! here we are! bully!" If Jim had been of the fainting or praying order he would certainly have fainted or prayed; as it was, he said "Bully!" but lay for a while thereafter still as a mouse.
"Given, you're a brick!" one of the boys was apostrophizing him.

Jim took no notice.

"And your man's in, safe and sound"; he turned at that, and leaned forward, as well as he could, to look at the occupant of his late bed.
"Jemime!" he cried, when he saw the face.

"I say, boys! it's Ercildoune--Robert--flag--Wagner--hurray--let's give three cheers for the color-sergeant,--long may he wave!" The men, propped up or lying down, gave the three cheers with a will, and then three more; and then, delighted with their performance, three more after that, Jim winding up the whole with an "a-a-ah,--Tiger!" that made them all laugh; then relapsing into silence and a hard battle with pain.
A weary voyage,--a weary journey thereafter to the Northern hospitals,--some dying by the way, and lowered through the shifting, restless waves, or buried with hasty yet kindly hands in alien soil,--accounted strangers and foemen in the land of their birth.