"
"What a fellow you are!" I groaned: "Alister, aren't you glad we're safe
here? Are you ever pleased about anything?"
He didn't speak, and I turned in his arm to look up at his face. His
eyes, which always remind me of the sea, were looking away over it, but
he brought them back to meet mine, and pressed my shoulder.
"It is bonnie," he said, "verra bonnie. But eh, man! if strange land
shines like yon, hoo'll oor ain shores look whenever we win Home?"
CHAPTER IX.
"One, two, three, and away!"
We three were fast friends when our voyage ended, and in planning our
future we planned to stick together, "Like the three leaves of the
shamrock," as Dennis O'Moore said.
The captain would have kept Alister as one of his crew, but the Scotch
lad had definite plans for looking up a cousin on this side of the
Atlantic, and pushing his fortunes by the help of his relative, so he
did not care to make the return voyage. The captain did not offer the
berth to me, but he was very kind, and returned my money, and gave us a
written paper testifying to our good conduct and capabilities.
Pages:
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147