12/18 Go put on new blue silk flock. Leady dilectly." Ten minutes later we were being rowed ashore, to be landed at the wharf where we met with so unpleasant an attack a short time before. But there was no mob of idlers there now, and we stepped ashore, leaving the good-natured-looking crew smiling at us, and giving the shops many a longing look, as they pushed off and began to row back at once. "You likee fust go lestaulant--eatee, dlinkee, spend plize-money ?" "Can't spend what we haven't yet got, Ching," said Barkins. "What do you say, lads? |