Encara no tenim significats per a "reply the middy".
1"Eleven knots and a-half, sir," replies the middy of the watch.
2"We have been repelling boarders, mother," replied the middy, his face wreathed in smiles.
3"Of course it is," replied the middy.
4"I shall hand him over to the proper officers, and they can do what they please with him," replied the middy.
5"I think of beating them off in any way we can," replied the middy, as his friends all called him from that time.