He added that the Flying Scud is in an excellent berth, and except in the highly improbable event of a heavy N.W.gale, might last until next winter." "You will never know anything of literature," said I, when Jim had finished.

"That is a good, honest, plain piece of work, and tells the story clearly.

I see only one mistake: the cook is not a Chinaman; he is a Kanaka, and I think a Hawaiian." "Why, how do you know that ?" asked Jim.
"I saw the whole gang yesterday in a saloon," said I."I even heard the tale, or might have heard it, from Captain Trent himself, who struck me as thirsty and nervous." "Well, that's neither here nor there," cried Pinkerton.

"The point is, how about these dollars lying on a reef ?" "Will it pay ?" I asked.
"Pay like a sugar trust!" exclaimed Pinkerton.

"Don't you see what this British officer says about the safety?
Don't you see the cargo's valued at ten thousand?
Schooners are begging just now; I can get my pick of them at two hundred and fifty a month; and how does that foot up?
It looks like three hundred per cent.