So that's how I got to be the Old Man of the Sea, hundreds and hundreds of years ago." "And do you like to be always in the sea, Old Bill ?" asked Martin.
"Ho, ho, ho!" laughed the monster.

"That's a good un, little Martin! Do I like it?
Well, it's better than being a sailor man in a ship, I can tell 'ee.

That were a hard life, with nothing good except perhaps the baccy.

I were very fond of baccy once before the sea put out my pipe.

Likewise of rum.