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Don't forget you're a fo'mast hand yet awhile and the way for a fo'mast hand to get ahead is to obey orders. And don't," he added, with a quiet chuckle, "do any play-actin' or poetry-makin' when it's your watch on deck. Laban nor I ain't very strong for play-actin', are we, Labe?" Laban, to whom the reference was anything but clear, replied rather vaguely that he didn't know as he was, very.
"Another one of those pieces about teeth like pearls and hair all curls, or somethin' like that. Say, Al, why don't you poetry-makin' fellers try a new one once in a while? Say, 'Her hair's like rope and her face has lost hope. Eh? Why not, for a change?"
"At least I don't mean to be. Way I look at it, this poetry-makin' and writin' yarns and that sort of stuff is just part of the youngster's er growin' up, as you might say. Give him time he'll grow out of it, same as I cal'late he will out of this girl business, this er Madel humph er ahem. . . . Looks like a good day to-morrow, don't it." He pulled up suddenly, and with considerable confusion.
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