And I like to have you always right." "Do, hey?
Hum!" Captain Cy didn't speak again for some few minutes, but he held the little girl very tight in his arms.

At length he drew a long breath.
"By the big dipper, Bos'n!" he exclaimed.

"You're a wonder, you are.
I wouldn't be surprised if you grew up to be a mind reader, like that feller in the show we went to at the townhall a spell ago.

To tell you the honest Lord's truth, I've been ashamed of myself ever since I come out of that schoolhouse door.

When that teacher woman sprung that on me about my fo'mast hands aboard ship I was set back about forty fathom.