"Well, youngsters, I'd have you to know that I don't allow fighting aboard my ship, and when I say a thing I mean a thing.
There!" "But, sir," snivelled Weeks, beginning some explanation, intended no doubt to throw all the blame on me.

"Graham--" Captain Gillespie, however, interrupted him before he could proceed any further.
"You'd better not say anything, Weeks," said the captain.

"Graham's a new hand and you're an old one; at least, you've already been one voyage, whilst this is his first.

I see you've had a lickin' and I'm glad of it, as I daresay it's been brought about by your own bullying; for I know you, Master Samuel Weeks, by this time, and you can't take me in as you used to do with your whining ways! If I didn't believe you were pretty well starched already, I'd give you another hiding now, my lad.

Please, my good young gentleman, just to oblige me, go up in the mizzen-top so that I can see you're there, and stop till I call you down! As for you, Matthews, whom I have just promoted I'm surprised at your forgetting yourself as an officer, and coming here forrud, to take part with the crew in a disgraceful exhibition like this.