Titely

"It's all werry fine, Mr Murray, sir," said Titely, "and I warn't going to flinch and holloa when one's poor mates wanted everything one could do to keep 'em in good heart; but I did get a good nick made in my shoulder, and the way it's been giving it to me all through this here red-hot march has been enough to make me sing out _chi-ike_ like a trod-upon dog."

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

The Yankee and his people are sure to be on the lookout to pounce upon one, and though if they took me prisoner -- they wouldn't dare to do anything else -- my being taken would not so much matter if May or Titely got down to the boat and reached the _Seafowl_.

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

"Oh yes, sir, there can, for you see it arn't you and me alone to look after one another; we've each got a messmate on our hands, for I s'pose it wouldn't be right for you to leave Mr Roberts to shift for hisself, no more than it would for me to leave Billy Titely."

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

I can't send one or two of the lads up to the house, for Tom May and Titely proved that they could lose themselves hopelessly, and if I sent the others they don't know the way at all.

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

Roberts started as if from pain, and threw out his arms sharply, striking Titely upon the side of the head.

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

Before Murray could answer, Titely sat up suddenly.

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

"But, Titely," cried Murray, "surely you ought to be on the sick list?"

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

Titely, the seaman who had been speared, was the butt of all his messmates, and the requests to him to show his wound were constant and all taken in good part; in fact, he seemed to revel in the joke.

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

"No, sir, and I don't think that Titely has got anything worse than a scratch."

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

"No; they've gone on, and we must overtake them and let Mr Anderson know that Roberts and Titely have lost their way, and have doubled back so that we have met them."

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870