But I thought we wus goin' t' th' Banks, sir ?" "Changed my plans.

We'll put out in twelve days.

Everything shipshape ?" "Up to the buntin', sir, and down to her keel.

I sh'd say about six-hundred tons; an' mebbe twelve days instead of fourteen.

An' what'll be our course after Madeery, sir ?" "Ajaccio, Corsica." "Yessir." If the admiral had said the Antarctic, Flanagan would never have batted an eye.
"You have spoken the crew ?" "Yessir; deep-sea men, too, sir.