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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...mine was done when 1 got out of the bilboes.' 'Have patience, my good friend; I'll convince you our interests are just the same.' Hattcraick gave a short dry cough, and Glossin, after a pause, proceeded. 'How came you to let the boy escape V 'Why, fluch and blitzen! he was no charge of mine. Lieutenant Brown gave him to his cousin that's in tho Middleburgh house of Yanbeest and Vanbruggen, and told him some goose's gazette about his being taken in a skirmish with the landsharks; he gave him for a foot-boy. Me let him escape! the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him.' 'Well, and was he bred a foot-boy then V 'Xein, ncin; the kinchin got about the old man's heart, and he gave him his own name, and bred him up in the office, and then sent him to India; I believe he would have packed him back here, but his nephew told him it would do up tho free trade for many a day if the youngster got back to Scotland.' 'Do you think the younker knows much of his own origin now?' Deyvil!' replied Hatteraick, 'how should I tell what he knows now? But he remembered something of it long. When he was but ten years old he persuaded another Satan's limb of an English bastard like himself to steal my lugger's khan--boat--what do you call it? to return to his country, as he called it; fire him! Before we could overtake them they had the skiff out of channel as far as the Deurloo; the boat might have been lost.' 'I wish to Heaven she had, with him in her!' ejaculated Glossin. 'Why, I was so angry myself that, sapperment! I did give him a tip over the side; but split him! the comical little devil swam like a duck; so I made him swim astern for a mile to teach him manners, and then took him in when he was sinking. By the knocking...