It was therefore advisable to leave him
in that error. But he required proofs of the corporal's sincerity, and
he told him so.
"Mein Gott! what proof will you have? De proof of de pudding is in de
eating."
"Well, then," replied Jemmy, "will you shy the dog overboard?"
"Te tog?--in one minute--and de master after him."
Whereupon Corporal Van Spitter went down into the cabin, which
Vanslyperken, trusting to his surveillance, had left unlocked, and
seizing the cur by the neck, carried him on deck, and hurled him several
yards over the cutter's quarter.
"Mein Gott! but dat is well done," observed Jansen.
"And he'll not come back wid de tide. I know de tide, Mein Gott!"
observed the corporal, panting with the exertion.
But here the corporal was mistaken. Snarleyyow did not make for the
vessel, but for the shore, and they could not in the dark ascertain what
became of him, neither was the tide strong, for the flood was nearly
over; the consequence was, that the dog gained the shore, and landed at
the same stairs where the boats land. The men were not in the boat, but
waiting at a beer-shop a little above, which Vanslyperken must pass when
he came down again.
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