The Galleon's Gold

the playing of jokes upon each other. Sometimes

legant opportunity to square som

uckled. "He laike whisky, do he? Mas

took down a small bag of ground red dust and se

arky, "he done fink som

ntity of the ground peppers. Then h

et. A swallow would seem sufficient to

with the prospect that he y

eard it

yez, naygur? Phwat d

bered a

f," he replied hastily, fearf

's nothin' to be wondhered at. But sh

t till I put dis bread in de ove

d sprang up the stairs. Barney

ez are!" cried Barney, "yez

elt threw the fl

the explosion. Gurgle, gurgle w

arky

believe h

ately drained the flask. Th

e whisky I once got in Donnybroo

gave

ed at Barney like one in a dream. Hi

ed at him i

ls yez!" he cried.

d coon, "but-did yo' drink al

z expict me to do? Did

luttered the co

the stairs slowly to the galley. There

ick as dat I'ishman hab got. I done fink he make a

to mind a little thing like this. He knew from the taste that t

uckled t

oime. But fer a fact he got badly left, fer divil

against the darky just

oix him

Pomp

st iron inside. I never fought

, the whisky did

Barney feel a bit tipsy. His han

oat was approaching a reef at full speed

s a shock, and everybody was hurled to the cabin floor. The lig

ank Reade, Jr., was the

ped his way into

ice from the corner; "shure

d Frank, "what

kin I tell yez. I think, though, th

cried Frank angrily. "What d

ll not blame me too much.

make the best of it, though Fra

the exact position of the su

The reflection that they might be immovably f

quickly turned on, and the

ely were fond

a view to drawing the boat

was stuck there, and would no

as to

boat could be freed from her position on the ledge,

n at the bottom of the sea

pale as he approac

he chances,

ok his he

no definite answer until after I have

the ou

es

looked

ou do that

ank. "I have a patent div

you dare to venture out in these waters in a diving

have perfected it so that, as no life line is use

e line? How do

carried on the back. It furnishes the best of air and is si

fford. "You are truly a ma

k la

simple of all my i

ve two of those wonderf

half a

y putting on one of the

inly y

brought out the diving suits

on encased in the suits, a

ax at the girdle. Other

onsters of the deep, but neither shrank from the

and pressed a valve. Instantly

o open the outer door a

stomed to the unusual pressure. But after awh

the bed of the sea. He found solid footing in

owly along to the

ce was

he reef and seemed immovable. The keel rested in a

position of the Dolphin that he gave

een engaged in looking for coral specim

ned in t

owth jutting out from the reef, and was d

hand upon the coral. At the same moment he no

aw the glitter of something brigh

Clifford'

m darted out of the orifice. In an instant it woun

fold and he was torn from his p

ord realized his peril and

ntacle of a fierce octopus or sea-cat, and th

st. For a moment he was dazed w

hould

as a p

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