Don't think about the deck of the vessel, or anything, but just as if you were sitting in a chair, watching the hills." Reuben did as the sailor instructed him and, as he did so, the feeling of which he was before conscious passed completely away.
"I feel all right now," he said, after sitting quietly for a few minutes.
"All right, then; down we go.

Don't look below, but just keep your eyes in front of you, and never leave go of one grip till you make sure of the next." Five minutes later he stood on the deck.
"Well done, my lad, for the first time," the first mate said, as Reuben put his foot on the deck "I have had my eye on you.

I shouldn't have let you go beyond the top, at the first trial; but I didn't think you would go higher, till you were fairly up, otherwise I should have hailed you from the deck.
"You ought not to have taken him up above the top, Bill.

If he had lost his head, it would have been all up with him." "I could see he wasn't going to lose his head.

Trust me for not leading a young hand into danger.