Well, that all come o' the lads skylarking.

If ever I'm skipper of a ship, no skylarking then.

I s'pose there'll be a reglar hooroar in the morning, and Mr Reardon wanting to know who started the game." "And you'll tell him, Tom ?" I said.
"O' course, sir," he replied, with a solemn wink.

"I'm just the man to go and split upon my messmates." "But you'll be punished if you don't tell.

You can't get out of it, because it's known that you were teasing him; and it wouldn't be fair for you to be punished and for them to escape." "No, sir, it wouldn't; but sech is life.