"You will be put in a watch, and work with the others, except that they may not send you aloft.

That depends on the terms that you shipped." "I shipped as carpenter, and to make myself generally useful, and to obey orders.

I shall be happy to do anything I can; hard work is better than doing nothing, any day." "That's the sort, my lad," the sailor said heartily.

"Now I am sail maker, but, bless your heart! Except putting a patch on a sail, now and then, there's nothing to do that way; and when not so wanted I am one of the ordinary crew.

Still, if you works your passage, it ain't to be expected as they will drive you the same as a man as is paid.