These men here shoot seals in order to live; for the same reason I sail this schooner; and Mr.Van Weyden, for the present at any rate, earns his salty grub by assisting me.

Now what do you do ?" She shrugged her shoulders.
"Do you feed yourself?
Or does some one else feed you ?" "I'm afraid some one else has fed me most of my life," she laughed, trying bravely to enter into the spirit of his quizzing, though I could see a terror dawning and growing in her eyes as she watched Wolf Larsen.
"And I suppose some one else makes your bed for you ?" "I _have_ made beds," she replied.
"Very often ?" She shook her head with mock ruefulness.
"Do you know what they do to poor men in the States, who, like you, do not work for their living ?" "I am very ignorant," she pleaded.

"What do they do to the poor men who are like me ?" "They send them to jail.

The crime of not earning a living, in their case, is called vagrancy.

If I were Mr.Van Weyden, who harps eternally on questions of right and wrong, I'd ask, by what right do you live when you do nothing to deserve living ?" "But as you are not Mr.Van Weyden, I don't have to answer, do I ?" She beamed upon him through her terror-filled eyes, and the pathos of it cut me to the heart.