He ventured to touch the ship with his finger, and he could feel the Captain's manly heart thumping like a muffled hammer beneath the skin.
"There's Queen Victoria on my right thigh and Nelson on my left, and the battle of Trafalgar on the middle of my back.

P'raps I'll show 'em you one day.

It wouldn't be decent exactly 'ere--too public.

But one day you come to my little place and I'll show 'em you." "Will you really ?" said Jeremy.

"Didn't it hurt terribly ?" "Hurt!" said the Captain.