In teaching her I learned quite a deal myself, though I was applying the knowledge already acquired by sailing the _Ghost_ and by watching the boat-steerers sail the small boats.

She was an apt pupil, and soon learned to keep the course, to luff in the puffs and to cast off the sheet in an emergency.
Having grown tired, apparently, of the task, she relinquished the oar to me.

I had folded up the blankets, but she now proceeded to spread them out on the bottom.

When all was arranged snugly, she said: "Now, sir, to bed.

And you shall sleep until luncheon.