Is she the Lady Griselda yet ?" "Not her, she's the Commander's wife." Ben shook his head, for this, he felt, was the one thing Tommy could not do.

"Well, then," growled Tommy, "if she winna be that, she'll have to serve before the mast, for I tell you plain I'll have no single women on board." "And what am I, forby Ben the Boatswain ?" "Nothing.

Honest men has just one name." "What! I'm just one single man ?" Corp was a little crestfallen.

"It's a come down," he said, with a sigh, "mind, I dinna grumble, but it's a come down." "And you dinna have 'Methinks' now either," Tommy announced pitilessly.
Corp had dreaded this.

"I'll be gey an' lonely without it," he said, with some dignity, "and it was the usefulest swear I kent o'.
'Methinks!' I used to roar at Mason Malcolm's collie, and the crittur came in ahint in a swite o' fear.