"But I say, sir, do you think if I was to go overboard, and then hitch myself on to the rudder-chains till I was took aboard, the doctor'd give me a dose of that same physic as he give him ?" "Very likely, Tom," I said.

"But you'd rather be without, wouldn't you ?" He smiled.
"But it was physic ?" "Oh yes, sir, it was physic.

But then you see there's physic as he takes out of one of his little bottles with stoppers, and there's physic as he makes out of the ship's rum, hot with sugar.

I could take a dose now easy, and it would do me good." "Nonsense!" I said, after a glance at the sleeping Chinaman.

"But I say, Jecks, how did he manage ?" "Oh, easy enough, sir.