22/25 Your father had a home to take a woman to, and that is what a woman should look to. Price Bottom was poor then, and without a shillin' in his pocket. It was disappointment that made me take to the sea, though. Went from the fo'castle t'where you see me now--Captain Price Bottom, sir, of the good ship Pacific. It's a man's own exertion that lifts him up in the world. |