"There's mischief enough done with it on land without taking it to sea." "Right you air, mister," rejoined the other; "but, mind you, I don't ask my men to do what I don't do myself.

This old hoss doesn't believe in a fellow's preachin' one thing and practisin' another; no, sirree! I ain't a teetotaler, nohow; but I never touches a drop o' licker from the time I sots foot aboard ship till I treads land ag'in--an' what I does, every man Jack o' my crew shall do ditto, or I'll know an' larn 'em the reason why, you bet! Howsomedever, mister, I guess we'd all better turn in now," he added, making a signal which Mrs Brown and Celia always interpreted as meaning their departure to bed.

"Recollect, this'll be our last night ashore, fur we shall all hev to rise airly in the mornin' to git the _Pilot's Bride_ under weigh.".