I could drink liquid fire against your whisky peg for peg, b'gosh, and keep as cool as a cucumber.

If I thought I was drunk I would jump overboard--do away with myself, b'gosh.
I would! Straight! And I won't go off the bridge.

Where do you expect me to take the air on a night like this, eh?
On deck amongst that vermin down there?
Likely--ain't it! And I am not afraid of anything you can do.' The German lifted two heavy fists to heaven and shook them a little without a word.
'I don't know what fear is,' pursued the engineer, with the enthusiasm of sincere conviction.

'I am not afraid of doing all the bloomin' work in this rotten hooker, b'gosh! And a jolly good thing for you that there are some of us about the world that aren't afraid of their lives, or where would you be--you and this old thing here with her plates like brown paper--brown paper, s'elp me?
It's all very fine for you--you get a power of pieces out of her one way and another; but what about me--what do I get?
A measly hundred and fifty dollars a month and find yourself.

I wish to ask you respectfully--respectfully, mind--who wouldn't chuck a dratted job like this?
'Tain't safe, s'elp me, it ain't! Only I am one of them fearless fellows.