I bought her out in Illinois--gave $150 for her--and I thought she was good.

And, by George, she is good onshore, but somehow she don't keep up her lick here on the water--gets seasick may be.

She skips; she runs along regular enough till half-past eleven, and then, all of a sudden, she lets down.

I've set that old regulator up faster and faster, till I've shoved it clear around, but it don't do any good; she just distances every watch in the ship, and clatters along in a way that's astonishing till it is noon, but them eight bells always gets in about ten minutes ahead of her anyway.

I don't know what to do with her now.