This is the first time I have ever been in one." "Then we'll learn together, sir.

And since you've had a night's start you shall teach me what you have learned.

And now, breakfast.

My! this air does give one an appetite!" "No coffee," I said regretfully, passing her buttered sea-biscuits and a slice of canned tongue.

"And there will be no tea, no soups, nothing hot, till we have made land somewhere, somehow." After the simple breakfast, capped with a cup of cold water, Maud took her lesson in steering.