Therefore, I did ask the bo'sun to turn the hose on us in the morning when they clean down the decks.

It is good friction." "And he has another saying--that it is good for the skin to apply oil with the palm of the hand till the skin reddens.

I have a smell about me like a blue gum-tree, for the ointment he gave contains eucalyptus oil." "And the fat of a goat.

There is much virtue in goats' fat, and the eucalyptus is not to the taste of the trumpeter." "The mosquito ?" "Even so." "Then why don't you say so in good English ?" and Compton dropped away from his high-flown speech.

"I bet that's a shark kicking up all that phosphorescence." "He swims in fire, like the--like the----" "Sprat!" "Like Apollo, you lean-minded insect.