But come, it’s getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes—it’s a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.
There’s plenty of room for two to kick about in that bed; it’s an almighty big bed that.
Why, afore we give it up, Sal used to put our Sam and little Johnny in the foot of it.
But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and somehow, Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm.
Arter that, Sal said it wouldn’t do.
Come along here, I’ll give ye a glim in a jiffy; and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way.