Can't we splice up a partnership?
Share and share alike, you know--you have as much as I, and I have as much as you, and we'll take the fair winds and the contrary winds together, and make port together, and sell our cargoes together, and use the same slop chest.

What do you say, lad?
Shall we sign on as partners ?" "Yes, sir," agreed Jimmy.
"Good! Good!" exclaimed Skipper Ed.

"Here, shake hands on it, partner.
Now we're friends to each other, whatever falls, good voyages and poor ones, and there's better luck coming for us both, lad, better luck." And so Skipper Ed and Jimmy Sanderson formed their partnership, and Jimmy, with his own and his father's kits, went ashore with Skipper Ed in Skipper Ed's boat, which he insisted was half Jimmy's, under their partnership agreement, and the next day the schooner sailed away and left them.

And with the passing weeks, Time, as Skipper Ed had predicted, and as he always does, healed Jimmy's sorrow, and he came to look upon Skipper Ed as the finest man and the finest partner in the world, and they two loved each other very much.
Abel and his wife and Skipper Ed and his partner lived upon terms of intimacy and good comradeship, as neighbors should.

And because they had no nearer neighbors than Abraham Moses, an Eskimo ten miles to the southward, and the people of the Moravian Mission and Eskimo settlement at Nain, twenty miles to the northward, the two families were dependent upon one another for human companionship, and therefore the bond of friendship that drew them together was the stronger.
And so it happened that early on the morning following the return of Abel and Mrs.Abel with Bobby, Skipper Ed and Jimmy walked over to welcome their neighbors home, and to discuss with them the fishing season just closed, and the seal hunting and the trapping seasons which were at hand.
Abel was engaged in cutting and shaping the sticks from which he was to build Bobby's little bunk, when he heard Skipper Ed's cheery: "_Oksunae!_"[A] "_Oksutingal!_"[A] exclaimed Abel, delightedly, grasping Skipper Ed's hand and then Jimmy's hand and laughing with pleasure.