`` Nay , if ye get again to drinking , all is lost ! '' cried Tom . `` Gossip Arblaster , ye suffer your fellow to have too much liberty , '' returned Master Pirret . `` Would ye be led by a hired man ? Fy , fy ! '' `` Peace , fellow ! '' said Arblaster , addressing Tom . `` Will ye put your oar in ? Truly a fine pass , when the crew is to correct the skipper ! '' `` Well , then , go your way , '' said Tom ; `` I wash my hands of you . '' `` Set him , then , upon his feet , '' said Master Pirret . `` I know a privy place where we may drink and discourse . '' `` If I am to walk , my friends , ye must set my feet at liberty , '' said Dick , when he had been once more planted upright like a post . `` He saith true , '' laughed Pirret . `` Truly , he could not walk accoutred as he is . Give it a slit -- out with your knife and slit it , gossip . '' Even Arblaster paused at this proposal ; but as his companion continued to insist , and Dick had the sense to keep the merest wooden indifference of expression , and only shrugged his shoulders over the delay , the skipper consented at last , and cut the cords which tied his prisoner 's feet and legs . Not only did this enable Dick to walk ; but the whole network of his bonds being proportionately loosened , he felt the arm behind his back begin to move more freely , and could hope , with time and trouble , to entirely disengage it . So much he owed already to the owlish silliness and greed of Master Pirret . That worthy now assumed the lead , and conducted them to the very same rude alehouse where Lawless had taken Arblaster on the day of the gale .
It was now quite deserted ; the fire was a pile of red embers , radiating the most ardent heat ; and when they had chosen their places , and the landlord had set before them a measure of mulled ale , both Pirret and XXXXX stretched forth their legs and squared their elbows like men bent upon a pleasant hour .
Arblaster Dick Lawless Pirret Tom alehouse gale oar pass silliness