I was nearly killed down there." "Nearly killed, you scoundrel! Serve you right; trying to steal a passage and food from the owner of this ship.

How dare you do it ?" "I--I wanted to go abroad so badly, sir," said the shivering wretch.
"I'd no money, and no friends." "I should think not indeed.

Who'd make a friend, do you think, of you ?" "Nobody, sir.

I did try lots of captains to take me as a sailor, but no one would." "Why, of course they wouldn't, you scoundrel!" stormed the first-mate.
"Can you reef and splice and take your turn at the wheel ?" "No, sir," whimpered the man.
"Can you go aloft without tumbling down and breaking somebody's head instead of your own idle neck?
Could you lay out on the foretop yard ?" "No, sir, but--but I'd try, sir, I would indeed, if you'd let me." "Let the poor wretch go, Gregory," whispered the second-mate.
"Sha'n't!" snapped the first-mate; and as he raged and stormed Mark felt more than ever that this was the real captain of the ship, and that his father must occupy a very secondary position.
"I would work so hard," said the poor fellow piteously.

"I only want to get into another country and try again." "At our owner's expense, eh?
Do you think the crew here want you ?" "No, no," rose in chorus; and Mark's heart gave a leap of sympathy, and anger against the men.
"There, you hear, you idle, cheating vagabond.