I'm very glad I've seen the North Sea in a fury, but I should not care to be a mere coddled amateur, nor would any one else that I work with." "Quite right, madam," said the professor, nodding his head with the gravity of all Cambridge; "and I should like to see women taking part in the management of our sea hospitals if the scheme is ever to be any more than a dream.

The talking women are like the talking men: they squabble, they recriminate, they screech and air their vanity, and they mess up every business they touch.

But if you have committee work to do, and want economy and expedition, then give me one or two lady members to assist." Then Blair called, "Come along, skipper; she's going easy.

Bring up one or two of the men and we'll have some singing." Now the ordinary sailor sings songs with the merriest or most blackguard words to the most dirge-like tunes; but our fishermen sing religious words to the liveliest tunes they can learn.

I notice they are fonder of waltz rhythms than of any others.