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He loved her, and began to live again. Blob was sitting cocked up in the bows, pink as ever and as impassive. At the sight of the boy Kit felt a certain resentment, and, with the swift self-knowledge peculiar to him, was glad to feel it, for it told him he was coming round. He wished the boy to collapse alongside the Parson. Why didn't he, the silly little land-lubber?
I can't be a land-lubber any longer, and I won't, so I shall look out for a ship, pretty soon. 'All because that girl came here to bother us. Deet to goodness, them Irishers have been the plagues of my life ever since I married. 'But she's Welsh, father, and you said so yourself. 'She's a mongrel, and no good ever came out of them. 'She saved mother's life, anyhow.
"Now, sailors newly waked are no cherubs; and therefore not a word is spoken, everybody munching his biscuit, grim and unshaven. At this juncture an affable-looking scamp Flash Jack crosses the forecastle, tin can in hand, and seats himself beside the land-lubber. "Hard fare this, Ropey," he begins; "hard enough, too, for them that's known better and lived in Lun'nun.
"All's right, however ship in the direct course, and no breakers ahead no lookout necessary; however there's a land-lubber aloft to keep a look out."
So we growed up together, always out in the woods between schools, huntin' checker-berries, and young winter-greens, and prince's piney, and huckleberries, and saxifrax, and birch, and all them woodsy things that children hanker arter; and by-'n'-by we got to goin' to the 'Cademy; and when Hetty was seventeen she went in to Hartford to her Aunt Smith's for a spell, to do chores, and get a little Seminary larnin', and I went to work on the farm; and when she come home, two year arter, she was growed to be a young woman, and though I was five year older'n her, I was as sheepish a land-lubber as ever got stuck a-goin' to the mast-head, whenever I sighted her.
Why, what does he think 'baccy was made for?" "I dun know as to that, Bill, but I do know that he's goin' to leave us. You see, he's only a sort of half-hand worked his passage out, you know, an' well he did it too, though he is only a land-lubber, bein' a Cornishman, who's bin lookin' arter mines o' some sort ever since he was a boy.
"He owns his vessel, you see carries her in his pocket and has no condemned lot of land-lubber owners on shore who cannot get away if there is any trouble, from the condemned magistrates and constables." "That is an advantage sometimes," said the young man. He was thinking of his own case probably. "Of course it is. Law is a very good thing in its place.
"When I came 'ome the other day I thought p'r'aps I'd let bygones be bygones, and I laid low for a bit to see whether any of you deserved it. I went to sea to get hardened and I got hard. I've fought men that would eat you at a meal. I've 'ad more blows in a week than you've 'ad in a lifetime, you fat-faced land-lubber."
Upon my deed, then, you may marry the girl. I have but one objection, and that's the way she came here. The girl's a good girl, and I like her well enough. Now, p'r'aps you 'ont go to sea. 'Decidedly not; I'm a steady land-lubber for my life: thank you, father. Shake hands upon it! You won't repent. Kiss me, Netta! You have done it, I know, and you shall dance at the wedding.
It is a horrible turmoil in which to enter. Perhaps he came down too soon! "I wish I had some one with me now. Mebbe the two of us would get an advantage." The second mate looks over the gunwale from the prow of the steamer. He knows a land-lubber is handling a yawl. "D fool!" he mutters. In the Georgian Bay, if the ship go down, all hands are to drown.
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