"If he'd a-rolled agen the stove we couldn't done nothin'.

We was hard put to it to save the wessel and ourselves." "I see now.

Steward, my case.

This must be sewn up." Ferrier had hardly drawn three stitches through, when one of the seamen fainted away, and this complication, added to the inexorable roll of the yacht, made Ferrier's task a hard one; but the indomitable Scot was on his mettle.

He finished his work, and then said-- "Now, my lads, you cannot take your mate on board again.