What luck!" "Luck be blowed!" cried Hudson, angrily.

"Somebody got into the chains to sound, and cut the weather halyards.

Next tack the masts went over the side; and I had done my duty." "Lives were lost that time, eh ?" said Wylie, gravely.
"What is that to you ?" replied Hudson, with the sudden ire of a drunken man.

"Mind your own business.

Pass me the bottle." "Yes, lives was lost; and always will be lost in sea-going ships, where the skipper does his duty.