Twas just such a night as this the auld...

Twas just such a night as this the auld Dover wint down. Just about this toime ut was, too, and we all sittin’ round in the fo’c’sle, Yank beside me, whin all av a suddint we heard a great slitherin’ crash, and the ship heeled over till we was all in a heap on wan side. What came afther I disremimber exactly, except ‘twas a hard shift to get the boats over the side before the auld teakittle sank. Yank was in the same boat wid me, and sivin morthal days we drifted wid scarcely a drop of wather or a bite to chew on. “T'was Yank here that held me down whin I wanted to jump into the ocean, roarin’ mad wid the thirst. Picked up we were on the same day wid only Yank in his senses, and him steerin’ the boat.