Oh, she's a-comin'! She's a-comin'! An' God knows where I'll get another boat-puller! What does the fool up an' say, when the old man calls him Yonson, but 'Me name is Johnson, sir,' an' then spells it out, letter for letter.

Ye should iv seen the old man's face! I thought he'd let drive at him on the spot.

He didn't, but he will, an' he'll break that squarehead's heart, or it's little I know iv the ways iv men on the ships iv the sea." Thomas Mugridge is becoming unendurable.

I am compelled to Mister him and to Sir him with every speech.

One reason for this is that Wolf Larsen seems to have taken a fancy to him.