He was surprised at the size and strength of the spars, which had looked so light and slender, from below.
"Very well done, lad," the sailor said approvingly.

"You would make a good sailor, in time, if you took to a seafaring life.

There's not one in ten as would get up there, the first time of going aloft.

You don't feel giddy, do you ?" "No," Reuben replied, "I don't think I feel giddy, but I feel a strange shaky feeling in my legs." "That will soon pass off," the sailor said.

"You look at them hills behind the town, and the forts and works up there.