It's great fun thinking they can't last.

'Old rheumatiz,' says I, when it grips me hard, 'you've GOT to stop aching sometime.

The worse you are the sooner you'll stop, mebbe.

I'm bound to get the better of you in the long run, whether in the body or out of the body.'" One night, by the fireside at the light Anne saw Captain Jim's "life-book." He needed no coaxing to show it and proudly gave it to her to read.
"I writ it to leave to little Joe," he said.

"I don't like the idea of everything I've done and seen being clean forgot after I've shipped for my last v'yage.