Go aft, and Derry Duck our first-mate will find something for you to do in short order.

He knows how to take the stiffness out of a fellow's bones." Thus dismissed, Blair mingled among the sailors at the other end of the vessel, by no means a welcome guest.

Muttered curses fell on his ears, and more than one voice was heard to say, "He ought to be sunk forty fathoms in salt water, with a hundred weight of lead at his heels.".