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"If I was you, Cappen, I'd heave the barometer overboard along wi' the main-deck, nail yer colours to the mast, cram the rudder into the lee-scuppers, kick up your flyin'-jib-boom into the new moon, an' go down stern foremost like a man!" "Ha!" said the Captain, with a twinkle in the corner of his "weather-eye," "not a bad notion." "Now, my lad, I'm goin' out to my villa at Kensington to dine.
I tell you, you've been dreaming. Then, as he got his head about to the level of the top of the companion-way, and out of the reach of any spare belaying-pin that might come that way, says he, 'I've just come in from the end of the flyin'-jib-boom, and there was no vessel in sight, except one topsail-schooner, with the watch all asleep, so it can't be her that hailed you.
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