He had a blue suit of broadcloth trimmed with eight rows of buttons, and breeches of the same material with great bunches of ribbon at the knee.

His vest was of lighter blue picked out with anchors in silver, and edged with a finger's-breadth of lace.

His boot was so wide that he might have had his foot in a bucket, and he wore a cutlass at his side suspended from a buff belt, which passed over his right shoulder.
'I've had a new coat o' paint all over,' said he, with a wink.
'Carramba! the old ship is water-tight yet.

What would ye say, now, were I about to sling my hawser over a little scow, and take her in tow ?' 'A cow!' I cried.
'A cow! what d'ye take me for?
A wench, man, and as tight a little craft as ever sailed into the port of wedlock.' 'I have heard no better news for many a long day,' said I; 'I did not even know that you were betrothed.

When thou is the wedding to be ?' 'Go slow, friend--go slow, and heave your lead-line! You have got out of your channel, and are in shoal water.