Young ones nowadays ain't got the spunk we used to have." His friend chuckled.
"That's so," he declared.

"That's so.

Whit was a good-hearted boy, too, but full of the Old Scratch and as sot in his ways as his dad, and if Cap'n Cy wan't sot, then there ain't no sotness.

'You'll go to college and be a parson,' says the Cap'n.

'I'll go to sea and be a sailor, same as you done,' says Whit.