Ferrier never had an uncivil word.

One rough customer whom he asked to board the yacht grinned and answered, "No, sir; I don't hold with Bethel ships.

But," he added remorsefully, "I've heard I reckon fifty times about you and your ladies and gentlemen, and if you was capsized out o' that eer boat, I'd have mine out and take her arter you my own self if the seas was a comin' over that there mast-head." Then Lewis shook hands with his frank opponent, who grinned affably and waved until the boat was nearly out of sight.

When the time for parting came, Blair told the Admiral, and the bold fellow said humbly, "Well, you've done us good.

If you only knew, sir, what it is for _us_--_us_, you know, to have people like you among us, why you'd go and give such a message as would make the gentlemen ashore feel regular funny.