Go ahead, Skipper." "Well, you see," said the Skipper, "this young Wilson comes down here from Hanover College, in the spring, as lean as a shad in dog-days.

He had studied himself half blind, and all his blood had got into brains.
So the Doctor tried to help him with his poticary stuff, and the women with their herbs; but all did no good.

At last somebody advised him to try a fishing cruise down East; and so he persuaded me to take him aboard my schooner.

I knew he'd be right in the way, and poor company at the best, for all his Greek and Latin; for, as a general thing, I've noticed that your college chaps swop away their common sense for their larning, and make a mighty poor bargain of it.

Well, he brought his books with him, and stuck to them so close that I was afraid we should have to slide him off the plank before we got half way to Labrador.