Vell, do you feel vairy seek ?" "No, we're all right," said Vince; and soon after the two boys climbed on deck and had to shelter themselves from the spray, which was flying across the deck in a sharp shower.
It was a black-looking morning, and the gloom of the clouds tinged the surface of the sea, whose foaming waves looked sooty and dingy to a degree, while the boys found now how much more severe the storm was than they had supposed when below.

The men were all in their oilskins, very little canvas was spread, and they were right out in a heavy, chopping sea, with no sign of land on any hand.
They had to stagger to the lee bulwarks and hold on, for the lugger every now and then indulged in a kick and plunge, while from time to time a wave came over the bows, deluging the deck from end to end.
But before long the slight feeling of scare which had attacked the boys passed off, as they saw the matter-of-fact, composed manner in which the men stood at their various stations, while the captain was standing now beside the helmsman, and appeared to be giving him fresh directions as to the course he was to steer, with the result that, as the lugger's head paid off a trifle, the motion became less violent, while her speed increased.
"Aha!" shouted the captain, as he found them--"not seek yet?
Vait till ve have ze _dejeuner_, and zen ve sall see." "Oh, we've been to sea before," said Vince rather contemptuously.
"And you like ze sea, _n'est-ce pas_--is it not so ?" "Oh yes; we like the sea," said Vince.

"It is good," said the captain, clapping him on the shoulder.

"Zen you sall help me.

You say no at ze beginning, but bah! a boy--two boy like you brave _garcons_--vill not cry to go home to ze muzzer.