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`` Arter that I could see there was nothing to be got out of ` im , an ' I just kept my eyes open and watched . The skipper did n't worry about his fits , ` cept that he said he was n't to let the sarpint see his face when he was in 'em for fear of scaring it ; an ' when the mate wanted to leave him out o ' the watch , he ses , ` No , he might as well have fits while at work as well as anywhere else . ' `` We were about twenty-four hours from port , an ' the sarpint was still following us ; and at six o'clock in the evening the officers puffected all their arrangements for ketching the creetur at eight o'clock next morning . To make quite sure of it an extra watch was kept on deck all night to chuck it food every half-hour ; an ' when I turned in at ten o'clock that night it was so close I could have reached it with a clothes-prop . `` I think I 'd been abed about ` arf-an-hour when I was awoke by the most infernal row I ever heard . The foghorn was going incessantly , an ' there was a lot o ' shouting and running about on deck . It struck us all as ` ow the sarpint was gitting tired o ' bread , and was misbehaving himself , consequently we just shoved our ` eds out o ' the fore-scuttle and listened .