Would any of you fellows faint for a jab with a boat-hook ?--I wouldn't.

It went into his leg so far.' He showed the boat-hook, which he had carried below for the purpose, and produced a sensation.

'No, silly! It was not his flesh that held him--his breeches did.

Lots of blood, of course.' Jim thought it a pitiful display of vanity.

The gale had ministered to a heroism as spurious as its own pretence of terror.