You ought to thank your stars that you had the good luck in having a Captain who knew his business, and made you learn yours.

Why, if you had had a man like Rintoul as your Captain, you would never have been worth your salt." "You are not complimentary, Doctor; but then nobody looks for compliments from you." "I can pay compliments if I have a chance," the Doctor retorted, "but it is very seldom I get one of doing so--at least, without lying.

Well, Bathurst, are you ready to turn in ?" "Quite ready, Doctor; that is one of the advantages of not caring for races; the merits and demerits of the horses that run tomorrow do not in the slightest degree affect me, and even the news that all the favorites had gone wrong would not deprive me of an hour's sleep." "I think it a good thing to take an interest in racing, Bathurst.

Take men as a whole: out here they work hard--some of them work tremendously hard--and unless they get some change to their thoughts, some sort of recreation, nineteen out of twenty will break down sooner or later.

If they don't they become mere machines.