His partner is away on a holiday, and Harold would like to push on a bit and show what he can do.

You know the poop isn't big enough to hold the lieutenant when the skipper's on shore." "I suppose he charges the usual half per cent ?" "Don't know, I'm sure, ma'am.

I'll swear that he does what is right and proper." "That is what I usually pay--ten shillings in the hundred pounds.

If you see him before I do just ask him to get me five thousand in New Zealands.

It is at four just now, and I fancy it may rise." "Five thousand!" exclaimed the Admiral, reckoning it in his own mind.
"Lemme see! That's twenty-five pounds commission.