Woolston, and we seem to sail along in company, much as we did the time you first went out a foremast-lad, and I teached you the difference between a flat-knot and a granny." "No, no, Bob, everything is not so much changed as you pretend I am not changed, in the first place." "I confess it you be the same, governor, blow high, or blow low."

My father had taught me to make a flat-knot, a bowline, a clove-hitch, two half-hitches, and such sort of things; and I got through with both a long and a short splice tolerably well.