I'm only passenger.' "'But what do you THINK ?' whines Zach.

'Can't you tell us what you do think ?' "'Well, if 'twas me, I wouldn't anchor till I had to.

Prob'ly 'twill fair off to-morrow, but if it shouldn't, we might have to lay out here all day.

Anyhow, we'd have to wait for a full tide.' "'I'm afraid we're off the course,' says 'Bije, else we'd been acrost the bar by this time.' "'Well,' Nat tells him, 'if we are off the course and too far inshore, we would have made the bar--the Bayport bar--if not the Trumet one.

And if we're off the course and too far out, we'd ought to have deeper water than five fathom, hadn't we?
'Course I'm not sure, but--What's that, lands-man ?' "'Three and a half, sir,' says the feller with the lead.