"It's all well enough for the rest of you, for all you have to do is lie around and read, but it's another thing to stand up there at the wheel and keep from running into the landscape!" "Give her to me," advised Perry.

"I'll get her to Edgartown or wherever you want to go, right-side-up with care." "If you take the wheel," said Han, "I get out and walk every foot of the way." "Better put your rubbers on," suggested Wink Wheeler.
"You fellows make me very tired," continued Perry severely.

"You call yourselves the Adventure Club and start out to see some sport, and then the first time there's a heavy mist you want to stick around an old harbour for fear you'll get damp! We've been going two whole days now, and we haven't even glimpsed an adventure!" "An adventure is one thing," said Ossie, "and getting drowned is something else again.

Tell you what, Perry; if you are so keen for sport why don't you slip into the tender and run over to Vineyard Haven yourself?
We'll follow along tomorrow, or maybe this afternoon." "I want to see this town," said Joe.

"There's lots to look at in here.
Whaling ships and a museum and--and lots of romantic things." "The whaling ships are all gone now," said Perry disdainfully.