Then the great rope began to slip swiftly through the hawse hole, and we heard the sharp splash as the iron flukes struck the water, and sank.

Methought a hawse-pipe rattled ... Gamba (chants to his viol).

"All wot!Dinnahs and dawnces and bwidge, the hawse-showandahall the west of it.

"Young man," said he, "I'm in a pecooliar and onpleasant position; there's mighty feyew things I wouldn't do in a hawse trade, but I draw the line on murder.