ing all sail, and as the lumpy gulf clouds disappeared on the wester

is soon forgotten when he loses the number of his mess. Great and small they drop out, and are never missed long afterward. In a little while the songs and croakings that accompanied an accordion belonging to the starboard watch told plainly that the few tear

le, she had said little to me. Her mother still kept to her bunk during meal hours, and I

randfather had both worked their way from the fo'castle to the quarter-deck. But, then, the woma

oted her attention almost entirely to young Brown when we were at meals together

n my thought.{91} What was I but a mate and a man nearly twice her age? I

ing dog-watch. Captain Crojack was easy enough on his mates during good weather, so Brown and I got in the habit of sitt

s, and it was hardly worth while to turn in for t

he invariably came on deck after his supper at the second t

ecessary to smoke and lie, after eating a

their hats. It is for some purpose that the sailor is so constituted. Perhaps good, hard, all-around lying promotes the digestion of salt food, by

de abaft the beam. We heeled over gently and sent the foam-f

ing to the ears of Brown and myself as we lounged on the combings and smoked. It lacked half an hour of eig

nd{93} then the second mate roused me

emark to th' man at th' wheel an' th' young gurl an' her ma heard me. But he's always finding fault lately an' something

women, O'Toole, and that's the reason you are

ad a good income and a handsome wife t' blackguard a poor divil av a mate because he can't have either, and say that it is his own fault? No, Mr. Gore, I spake for th' whole crowd av poor divils, like u

few moments, and t

ouple av thim from under th' break av th' poop, throwin' a belayin'-pin an' bawlin', 'Git out, ye ornery burds! Have ye got no regard for ayther time, place, or circumstance?' 'P

ard again. O'Toole was still sitting on the hatch combings, talking to the third mate. I walked athwartships, under

m Crojack's faultfinding, "but 'tis the takin' av other people's upon mesilf that makes me feel o

h' maintop, and used t' teach my fellows how t' swing a cutlass an' handle a pistol witho

wn on th' beer. As it was, th' men tried all kinds av ways t' get th' stuff on deck from th' shore. Sometimes they wo

tuff down th' tideway by th' keg at night, an' thin pu

ettin' into scrapes, who paid a dago to start a k

r av th' deck comin' for'ard at th' time, he was forced to concale th' stuff as

roper man, an' he niver broke a rule or dis

ted a cringle for something, an' av course

' asked t' explain how a keg av goo

board than th' whole ship's company besides. So when Captain Broadchin asked th' question th' bo's'n got mighty qu

ous tone, 'faith, an' yer honou

at?' sez th

orders t' tech th' stuff, an' th' only way t' save the boys was to hide th' keg as soon as it lit on th' main-deck. How th' rest av th' watch missed seein' the

er{98} said another whurd, an' he believed so well that he was a-tellin' av th' tru

' he got good an' drunk an' came back t' say good-bye

sper ye,' sez he. An' thin he shakes hands all arou

bless an' prosper ye,' sez he t' th' lift

aptain Broadchin, an' may th' Lord bless an' pros

I made up me mind thin an' there niver t' take another man's s

ccount, and then said, with more earnestn

een rather a mean piece of business to have told how the beer c

bo's'n an' me a lot av rope's-ending upon

ld his friends. Suppose, for instance, you had a good friend or brother, and something occu

av your reckoning. I'd see him forty fathoms

t watch he appeared{100} to be thinking over some interesting subject. He was so absorbed that he hardly sp

able for the mates. Afterward, seeing the light in his stateroom, I passed by

pile of the most flashy police report

in that quartermaster's chest this morning. Take one; they are uncommonly intere

t," and I went to my room an