head.

"I dunno, sir; I think I'm lying on the carpet, sir, close to the shelf
I put you on."

"Then go away somewhere; you make me feel as if I could kill you."

"Wish you would, sir," groaned the man. "I'd take it kindly of you."

"Oh, don't talk such nonsense," sighed Jack. "Oh, my head, my head!"

"Oh, mine, sir, and it ain't nonsense at all. It's real earnest. Why
was I such a fool as to come, and why did I grin at you, and say as you
was a poor-plucked 'un? It's like a judgment on me. But I always was
so conceited."

"Call some one to help you to your berth."

"I dursn't, sir. If I did, those sailor chaps would see as it was all
over with me and pitch me overboard."

"Ned, you are torturing me," said Jack; and he turned himself a little
to look down at the miserable being on the floor.

"Very sorry, sir, but something's torturing me. Do you think we've got
as far as France yet?"

"Oh, I don't know."

"Do you think, if I give master warning, he'd have me set ashore at
once?"

"No," said Jack, with a touch of exultation in his words; "I'm sure he
wouldn't. You'll have to go with us now."

"I couldn't, sir, I couldn't really. Why, I couldn't go round this
room--cabin, or whatever you call it. Oh dear! oh dear! to think of me
turning all of a sudden like this! It's awful."

"Here, Jack! Jack, lad! Aren't you coming on deck?" cried a voice down
through the cabin skylight.

"Oh, there's the doctor," groaned Edward. "Why don't he come down?"

"Jack! are you there? It's splendid. Come up."

"Come down, sir, please," groaned the man.

"Hullo!" said the doctor to himself. "Why surely they're not--Oh! they
can't be so soon."

He hurried down the cabin steps, and came breezily into the cabin, to
see at a glance the state of affairs.

"Why, Jack, my lad, this is cowardly," he cried.

"Don't, sir, don't," groaned Edward. "I said something like that.
Don't you, sir, or you may be took bad too."

"Why you ought to be able to stand a little sea-going, my man," said the
doctor; "this is a break down. Here, make an effort and go to your
berth."

"Make an effort, sir? I couldn't do it even if the ship was a-sinking."

"Nonsense!"

"It's true. I'm afraid it's all over, and Sir John will want another
man."

"There, jump up and go to your berth. You share the same cabin as the
cook and steward, don't you?"

"I was to, sir, and it was a very small place, but there'll be more room