If any of the other captains ask how Mrs To is to-day?
'Why,' he replies, 'pretty well, I thank you;' but at the same time he gives a kind of smirk, as if to say, 'She is not my wife;' and although everybody knows that she is, yet he prefers that they should think otherwise, rather than be at the expense of keeping her on shore; for you know, Peter, that although there are regulations about wives, there are none with regard to other women." "But does his wife know this ?" inquired I.
"I believe, from my heart, she is a party to the whole transaction, for report says, that she would skin a flint if she could.

She's always trying for presents from the officers, and, in fact, she commands the ship." "Really, O'Brien, this is not a very pleasant prospect." "Whist! wait a little; now I come to the wind-up.

This Captain To is very partial to pig's _mate_, and we have as many live pigs on board as we have pigs of ballast.

The first lieutenant is right mad about them.
At the same time he allows no pigs but his own on board, that there may be no confusion.

The manger is full of pigs; there are two cow-pens between the main-deck guns, drawn from the dock-yard, and converted into pig-pens.