ble or else all squeak."

"Yes; he's about squenched now, squire," said the captain. "Here, shove
him under hatches, and it's lucky for you I'm not in a hanging humour
to-day. You'd better behave yourself, or you may be brought up again
some day when I am."

As the captain spoke to the streaming, shivering wretch he made a noose
in the rope he held, manipulating it as if he were really going to hang
the abject creature, in whom the fire of rage had quite become extinct.
Then the sailors took hold of him, and he uttered a despairing shriek;
but he cooled down as he found that he was only to be made a prisoner,
and was thrust below, with Jimmy dancing a war-dance round him as he
went, the said dance consisting of bounds from the deck and wavings of
his waddy about his head.

As the Malay was secured, Jack Penny rose from his seat and walked to
the side of the vessel, to spit into the water with every sign of
disgust upon his face.

"Yah!" he said; "I wouldn't squeak like that, not if they hung me."

"Well, let's see," cried the captain, catching him by the collar;
"hanging is the punishment for stowaways, my fine fellow."

"Get out!" said Jack, giving himself a sort of squirm and shaking
himself free. "You ain't going to scare me; and, besides, you know what
you said. I say, though, when are we going to have something to eat?"

The captain stared at Jack's serious face for a few moments, and then he
joined with the doctor and me in a hearty laugh.

"I don't well understand you yet, my fine fellow," he said; "perhaps I
shall, though, afore I've done. Here, come down; you do look as if a
little wholesome vittles would do you good. Are you hungry then?"

"Hungry!" said Jack, without a drawl, and he gave his teeth a gnash;
"why, I ain't had nothing but some damper and a bottle o' water since I
came on board."

CHAPTER SIX.

HOW JIMMY WAS FRIGHTENED BY THE BUNYIP.

"Oh, I don't know that I've got any more to say about it," said Jack
Penny to me as we sat next day in the bows of the schooner, with our
legs dangling over the side. "I heard all about your going, and there
was nothing to do at home now, so I said to myself that I'd go, and here
I am."

"Yes, here you are," I said; "but you don't mean to tell me that you
intended to go up the country with us?"

"Yes, I do," he said.

"Nonsense, Jack! it is impossible!" I said warmly.

"I say!"

"Well?"

"New Guinea don't belong to you, does it?"