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Illustrator: Harold Piffard
Hunting the Skipper, by George Manville Fenn.
H.M.S. "SEAFOWL."
"Dicky, dear boy, it's my impression that we shall see no blackbird's cage to-day."
"And it's my impression, Frank Murray, that if you call me Dicky again I shall punch your head."
"Poor fellow! Liver, decidedly," said the first speaker, in a mock sympathetic tone. "Look here, old chap, if I were you, I'd go and ask Jones to give me a blue pill, to be followed eight hours later by one of his delicious liqueurs, all syrup of senna."
"Ugh!" came in a grunt of disgust, followed by a shudder. "Look here, Frank, if you can't speak sense, have the goodness to hold your tongue."
"There, don't be rusty, old fellow," said the first speaker.
"Ha, ha! Why not?" said Frank merrily. "You wouldn't have minded if I had said `old cock.'"
"Humph! Perhaps not," said the young man sourly.
"There, I don't wonder at your being upset; this heat somehow seems to soak into a fellow and melt all the go out of one. I'm as soft as one of those medusae--jellyfish--what do you call them?--that float by opening and shutting themselves, all of a wet gasp, as one might say."
"It's horrible," said the other, speaking now more sociably.
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