That's the place where they say as the helmsman has to have two men, regular, to hold on his hair." Reuben laughed.
"I think on the whole, Bill, I would rather get to Sydney without meeting a storm like that.

This has been quite enough for me.

Why, some of the waves hit the vessel's bow as if they would have knocked it in." "Wait till you have a gale in earnest, Master Reuben, and you will know about it then.

Of course it seemed worse to you, because you were lying there a-doing nothing, and was weak-like with heaving yourself up.

If you had been on deck, you would have seen as it was nothing worth talking about.
"Look at the ship.