15/20 There's six hundred hands round us, and every man of 'em would pay a penny a week towards a doctor if the governors would do a bit as well. I'm no scholard, but six hundred pennies, and six hundred more to that, might pay a man middlin' fair. But where's your man ?" Ferrier's education was being perfected with admirable speed. The skipper hailed: "Are you all right, sir? The admiral says we're in for another bad time. |