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Updated: May 1, 2025
Me and my shipmets wouldn't want to make another v'yge with you if you was that sort o' capt'n. I'll buy you another one when we gets to Chany. Here's off!"
Them were pleasant days, Captain Wallingford I say nothing ag'in these but them 'ere were pleasant times, as all in the Crisis must allow." "Perhaps we shall think the same of these some five or six years hence." "Well, that's natur', I must confess. It's amazing how the last v'yge hangs in a man's memory, and how little we think of the present!
I got some black fellers down there that would take a prize in a circus sideshow themselves. One of 'em's over seven foot tall. And strong as wolves," declared Captain Tugg. "If I went with you, what would you give me a month?" "Sixteen dollars in silver," he said, promptly. "I see you've got eddication you'd be handy. I could trust you with the schooner after a v'yge or two.
"Thare now! Sure, an' that job's done wid anyhow for this v'yge, plaize the pigs, ma bouchal!" exclaimed the boatswain with a jolly laugh, after seeing the main-hatchway covered and battened down, and a tarpaulin spread over it to make all snug, gazing round with an air of proud satisfaction, as he slowly made his way up the poop ladder again and came up to where I was standing by the rail looking over.
Dat's whar I takin my lesson." "Sho, gen'l'muns! 'pears to me lak you don't nebber go on er deep-sea v'yge whar you gets de genuwine joe-flogger, an' de plum-duff, an' sich like," said Nimbus, the yacht's cook. "Ef you had, you wouldn' talk."
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