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On this plan nobody will run , and no wages be mulcted . '' `` But dat take time and an anchor-watch last but two hour , surposin ' even dat ` ey puts all t ` ree of us in de same watch . '' `` Spike usually does that , you know . ` Let the cook and the stewards keep the midnight watch , ' he commonly says , ` and that will give the foremost hands a better snooze . '' ' `` Yes , he do say _ dat , _ Josh , '' put in Simon , `` most ebbery time we comes-to . '' `` I know he does , and surposes he will say it to-night , if he comes-to to-night . But a two hour watch may not be long enough to do all you wants ; and den , jest t ` ink for a moment , should ' e cap ` in come on deck and hail ' e forecastle , and find us all gone , I would n't be in your skin , Jack , for dis brig , in sich a kerlamity .