"Come on board with your rattletraps tomorrow.

I'll soon find out what you are made of." I returned home with a light heart, and rejoiced Hansen with the intelligence that I had become one of the crew of the Mary.

I promised him every cent of my advance wages.

With this he was obliged to be content, but declared his intention to keep my chest, my books, and other articles of trifling value, as security for the remainder of my board.

To this I made no objection, thinking it reasonable enough.