[West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon]@TWC D-Link bookWest Wind Drift CHAPTER X 14/26
We've got to work.
That means all of us.
It means the women as well as the men. It means the women with soft, white hands and the men who never did a stroke of manual labour in their lives, just as much as it means the people who have never done anything else but work.
Something will be found for every one of us to do, and, ladies and gentlemen, we will have to do it without whining. "Captain Trigger is accountable for the cargo on board this ship. Naturally he is opposed to our confiscating anything that has been entrusted to him for safe delivery.
He takes a very sensible attitude, however.
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